Adi Ophir

Adi Ophir 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 and his PhD from Boston University.

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". Routledge.
"The Identity of the Victims and the Victims of Identity: A Critique of Zionist Ideology for a Post-Zionist Age." In Laurence Jay Silberstein, Mapping Jewish Identities. NYU Press..
The Order of Evils: Toward an Ontology of Morals. MIT Press. Translated by Rela Mezali and Havi Carel.
The power of inclusive exclusion: anatomy of Israeli rule in the occupied Palestinian territories, Zone Books, 2009.
The One-State Condition. Stanford University Press, 2012.
אלימות אלוהית : שני חיבורים על אלוהים ואסון . The Van Leer Institute, 2013.
Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon. Fordham University Press, 2017.
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.