Martin Shuster is Professor of Philosophy and Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he founded the Philosophy and Critical Theory Lab (PaCT Lab). In addition to many articles and book chapters, he is the author of Autonomy after Auschwitz: Adorno, German Idealism, and Modernity (University of Chicago, 2014), New Television: The Aesthetics and Politics of a Genre (University of Chicago, 2017), How to Measure a World? A Philosophy of Judaism (Indiana University Press, 2021), and most recently Critical Theory: The Basics (Routledge, 2024).