Eviatar Zerubavel is Board of Governors and Distinguished Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Rutgers University. He is the author of 14 books (including Hidden Rhythms, The Seven-Day Circle, The Fine Line, Social Mindscapes, The Clockwork Muse, Time Maps, The Elephant in the Room, Ancestors and Relatives, Taken For Granted, and Generally Speaking) about time, cognition, classification, attention, memory, social phenomenology, genealogy, silence and denial, sociological theory, semiotics, as well as about the very process of writing books. His most recent book is Don’t Take It Personally: Personalness and Impersonality in Social Life (Oxford University Press, 2024). He is currently writing a book about the social phenomenology of distance.
