Adi Ophir

Adi Ophir (Hebrew: עדי אופיר; born September 22, 1951) is an Israeli philosopher.

Adi Ophir
עדי אופיר
Born	(1951-09-22) September 22, 1951 (age 71)
Partner	Ariella Azoulay
Academic background
Education	Hebrew University of Jerusalem Boston University
Academic work
Institutions	Tel Aviv University Brown University

Early life

Adi Ophir was born on September 22, 1951.^{[citation needed]} He received his BA and MA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his PhD from Boston University.^[1]

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

References

1. 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, , Moran Peled speaks with Adi Ophir about his views on postmodernism, Eretz Acheret Magazine