Adi Ophir

Adi Ophir
Adi Ophir
עדי אופיר
Born	September 22, 1951 (age 73)
Partner	Ariella Azoulay
Academic background
Education	Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Boston University
Academic work
Institutions	Tel Aviv University; Brown University

Adi Ophir (Hebrew: עדי אופיר; 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]

Ophir is married to Ariella Azoulay.

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."

Works

Plato's Invisible Cities: Discourse and Power in the "Republic" (1990). Routledge. ISBN 0-415-03596-1
"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. ISBN 0-8147-9769-5.
The Order of Evils: Toward an Ontology of Morals (2005). MIT Press. Translated by Rela Mezali and Havi Carel. ISBN 1-890951-51-X
(ed. with Michal Givoni and Sari Hanafi) The power of inclusive exclusion: anatomy of Israeli rule in the occupied Palestinian territories, Zone Books, 2009. ISBN 978-1-890951-92-4
(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. ISBN 978-0823276684
(with Ishay Rosen-Zvi) Goy: Israel's Multiple Others and the Birth of the Gentile. Oxford University Press, 2018. ISBN 978-0-19-874490-0
In the Beginning Was the State: Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible. Fordham University Press, 2023.

References

^ "Ophir, Adi". Library of Congress Name Authority File. Retrieved 3 March 2023.
^ Ram, Uri (2010-12-16). Israeli Nationalism: Social conflicts and the politics of knowledge. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-91994-7.

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

[1] "Ophir, Adi". Library of Congress Name Authority File. Retrieved 3 March 2023.

[2] Ram, Uri (2010-12-16). Israeli Nationalism: Social conflicts and the politics of knowledge. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-91994-7.

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