Rachel Rosner

Rachel R. Rosner is a philosopher specializing in critical theory and the relationship between religion and secularism in modern and contemporary thought. She is completing her PhD in Philosophy at Bar-Ilan University (expected 2025), where she was awarded a Presidential Scholarship. She holds an MA in Philosophy from Northwestern University and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Oregon. Her dissertation, Theological Aspects in the Thought of Theodor W. Adorno, forms the basis of her forthcoming book, Adorno and the Question of Theology: Religion and Reason Beyond Foundations (Bloomsbury Academic, November 2025). In this work, she reconstructs Adorno as drawing on the critical resources of both religious and secular legacies while resisting their foundational claims, offering a model that both anticipates and exceeds current frameworks of postsecularism. In addition to her book project, she has written on critical theory, religion, and postsecularism in diverse venues, including a forthcoming article in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy.

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She has received numerous fellowships, scholarships, and grants, and since 2021 has served as a Junior Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.

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As a postdoctoral fellow jointly affiliated with the Christosemitism Project and the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rosner is developing the concept of postsecular antisemitism—a framework for analyzing how contemporary antisemitism emerges from the dynamic relationship between religion and secularism that defines postsecularity. Drawing on critical theory and current debates, her research explores how this dynamic gives rise to antisemitic formations that function as revealing symptoms of the postsecular condition.