Adi Ophir ( he, עדי אופיר; 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; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

and his PhD from

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original campu ...

. Ophir is married to

Ariella Azoulay Ariella Aïsha Azoulay ( he, אריאלה עאישה אזולאי; born Tel Aviv, 1962) is an author, art curator, filmmaker, and theorist of photography and visual culture. She is a professor of Modern Culture and Media and the Department of ...

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) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...

. He is also a fellow at the

Van Leer Jerusalem Institute The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (VLJI) is a center for the interdisciplinary study and discussion of issues related to philosophy, society, culture, and education. The Institute was established in to create a body of knowledge and discourseto ...

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. * "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 president of the International Sociological Association and also the editor of Idafat: the Arab Journal o ...

) ''The power of inclusive exclusion: anatomy of Israeli rule in the occupied Palestinian territories'', Zone Books, 2009.

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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