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.
ISBN0-415-03596-1
"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.
ISBN0-8147-9769-5.
The Order of Evils: Toward an Ontology of Morals (2005). MIT Press. Translated by Rela Mezali and Havi Carel.
ISBN1-890951-51-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.
ISBN978-1-890951-92-4
(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.
ISBN978-0823276684
(with Ishay Rosen-Zvi) Goy: Israel's Multiple Others and the Birth of the Gentile. Oxford University Press, 2018.
ISBN978-0-19-874490-0
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.