Ido Ben Harush is a College Fellow in Modern Jewish Thought in the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University. He is a scholar of modern Jewish philosophy and literature whose work explores the role of religious categories in social critique and aesthetic theory. He completed his PhD in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Yale University, where he wrote a dissertation on the afterlives of the biblical prohibition of idolatry in modern German-Jewish thought. His research has appeared in New German Critique, Rosenzweig Yearbook, and other venues. At Harvard, he is developing his first book project, which builds on his dissertation, and teaches modern Jewish philosophy and political thought, secularization, and media theory.