Adi Ophir
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Adi Ophir (Template:Langx; born September 22, 1951) is an Israeli philosopher.
Early life
Adi Ophir was born on September 22, 1951.[1] He received his BA and MA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his PhD from Boston University.[2]
Career
Ophir teaches philosophy at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University. He is also a fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute where he directs an interdisciplinary research project on "Humanitarian Action in Catastrophes: The Shaping of Contemporary Political Imagination and Moral Sensibilities." In 2020, Ophir was one of a handful of Israeli far-Leftists who were profiled in Haartez about their having permanently emigrated to the U.S. or Europe.
Works
- Plato's Invisible Cities: Discourse and Power in the "Republic" (1990). Routledge. Template:ISBN
- "The Identity of the Victims and the Victims of Identity: A Critique of Zionist Ideology for a Post-Zionist Age." (2000) In Laurence Jay Silberstein (ed.), Mapping Jewish Identities (pp. 174–200). NYU Press. Template:ISBN.
- The Order of Evils: Toward an Ontology of Morals (2005). MIT Press. Translated by Rela Mezali and Havi Carel. Template:ISBN
- (ed. with Michal Givoni and Sari Hanafi) The power of inclusive exclusion: anatomy of Israeli rule in the occupied Palestinian territories, Zone Books, 2009. Template:ISBN
- (with Ariella Azoulay) The One-State Condition. Stanford University Press, 2012.
- אלימות אלוהית : שני חיבורים על אלוהים ואסון [Divine Violence: Two Essays on God and Disaster]. The Van Leer Institute, 2013.
- (ed. with J. M. Bernstein and Ann Laura Stoler) Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon. Fordham University Press, 2017. Template:ISBN
- (with Ishay Rosen-Zvi) Goy: Israel's Multiple Others and the Birth of the Gentile. Oxford University Press, 2018. Template:ISBN
- In the Beginning Was the State: Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible. Fordham University Press, 2023.
References
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External links
- Audio interview with Adi Ophir and Ariella Azoulay regarding their book "This Regime Which is not One – Occupation and Democracy Between the Sea and the River (1967 - )" from the Alternative Information Center
- Moran Peled, Three generations and postmodernism, Moran Peled speaks with Adi Ophir about his views on postmodernism, Eretz Acheret Magazine