Adi Ophir (; born September 22, 1951) is an Israeli philosopher.

Early life

Adi Ophir was born on September 22, 1951. He received his BA and MA from the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; ) is an Israeli public university, public research university based in Jerusalem. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizmann in July 1918, the public university officially opened on 1 April 1925. ...

and his PhD from

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodism, Methodists with its original campus in Newbury (town), Vermont, Newbur ...

Career

Ophir teaches philosophy at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) is a Public university, public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Located in northwest Tel Aviv, the university is the center of teaching and ...

. He is also a fellow at the

Van Leer Jerusalem Institute The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute is a center for interdisciplinary study in the humanities and social sciences, and the development of new ways of addressing questions of global concern that hold special importance for Israeli society and the r ...

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 A republic, based on the Latin phrase ''res publica'' ('public affair' or 'people's affair'), is a State (polity), state in which Power (social and political), political power rests with the public (people), typically through their Representat ...

"'' (1990). Routledge. * "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. . * ''The Order of Evils: Toward an Ontology of Morals'' (2005). MIT Press. Translated by Rela Mezali and Havi Carel. * (ed. with Michal Givoni and

Sari Hanafi Sari Hanafi is currently a professor of sociology at the American University of Beirut and chair of the Islamic Studies program. He is the former president of the International Sociological Association and also the editor of Idafat: the Arab ...

) ''The power of inclusive exclusion: anatomy of Israeli rule in the occupied Palestinian territories'', Zone Books, 2009. * (with Ariella Azoulay) ''The One-State Condition''.

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, 2012. * ''אלימות אלוהית : שני חיבורים על אלוהים ואסון'' ivine 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. * (with Ishay Rosen-Zvi) ''Goy: Israel's Multiple Others and the Birth of the Gentile''. Oxford University Press, 2018. * ''In the Beginning Was the State: Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible''. Fordham University Press, 2023.

References

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
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