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Israeli ethicist and literary critic
Tzachi Zamir (born February 13, 1967
[1] ) is an Israeli
philosopher and
literary critic specialising in the
philosophy of literature , the
philosophy of theatre , and
animal ethics . He is
Professor of English and General & Comparative Literature at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem .
Academic career
Zamir studied at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and
Tel-Aviv University , going on to be a
Rothschild and
Fulbright
postdoctoral fellow in philosophy at
The University of Chicago . He joined the English department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2004 as a lecturer, and is now
Professor of English and General & Comparative Literature.
[2]
Zamir is the author of the 2006 book Double Vision: Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama
[3]
[4] and the 2007 book Ethics & the Beast: A Speciesist Argument for Animal Liberation ,
[5]
[6]
[7] both published by
Princeton University Press . His 2014 book Acts: Theater, Philosophy, and the Performing Self was published by the
University of Michigan Press .
[8]
[9]
[10] In 2018, he published both the monograph Ascent: Philosophy and Paradise Lost
[11]
[12]
[13] and the
edited collection Shakespeare's Hamlet: Philosophical Perspectives with
Oxford University Press ,
[14] and in 2020 he published Just Literature: Philosophical Criticism and Justice with
Routledge .
[15]
While most contemporary scholars involved with animal ethics have written in favour of
veganism , Zamir however has defended
vegetarianism .
[6]
[16]
[17]
Personal life
Zamir lives with his wife and three children in
Hod HaSharon .
[18]
Selected publications
"Veganism" (
Journal of Social Philosophy , 2004)
Double Vision: Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama (Princeton University Press, 2006)
Ethics & the Beast: A Speciesist Argument for Animal Liberation (Princeton University Press, 2007)
"Killing for Pleasure" (
Between the Species , 2011)
Acts: Theater, Philosophy, and the Performing Self (University of Michigan Press, 2014)
Ascent: Philosophy and Paradise Lost (Oxford University Press, 2018)
Just Literature: Philosophical Criticism and Justice (Routledge, 2020)
References
^
"Tzachi Zamir - CV" . Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Retrieved 2019-01-26 .
^
"Tzachi Zamir: Bio & Research" . Hebrew University of Jerusalem. June 2018. Retrieved 16 December 2018 .
^ Schweizer, Harold (2008). "Double Vision: Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama (review)".
Partial Answers . 6 (2): 503–506.
doi :
10.1353/pan.0.0013 .
S2CID
145684497 .
^ Fulton, Thomas (2008). "Tzachi Zamir. Double Vision: Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama ".
Renaissance Quarterly . 61 (1): 301–2.
doi :
10.1353/ren.2008.0077 .
S2CID
171316057 .
^
Hadley, John (2008). "Ethics and the Beast ‐ By Tzachi Zamir". Analytic Philosophy . 49 (3): 279–80.
doi :
10.1111/j.1468-0149.2008.467_16.x .
^
a
b Jones, Robert C.
"Tzachi Zamir, Ethics and the Beast: A Speciesist Argument for Animal Liberation " .
Philosophy in Review . 29 (6): 448–450.
^
Faria, Cátia (2010).
"Zamir, Tzachi, Ethics and the Beast: A Speciesist Argument for Animal Liberation " . Telos (in Spanish). 17 (1): 109–120.
^ Daddario, Will (2015). "Acts: Theater, Philosophy, and the Performing Self . By Tzachi Zamir".
TDR/The Drama Review . 59 (4): 189–92.
doi :
10.1162/DRAM_r_00508 .
S2CID
57563480 .
^ Hamilton, James R. (2015). "Acts: Theater, Philosophy, and the Performing Self".
The Philosophical Quarterly . 65 (261): 856–9.
doi :
10.1093/pq/pqu103 .
^ Riggle, Nick (2015).
"Acts: Theater, Philosophy, and the Performing Self" . Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2015.09.16).
^ Moshenska, Joe (2019).
" Ascent: Philosophy and Paradise Lost , by Tzachi Zamir" .
Mind . 128 (511): 927–35.
doi :
10.1093/mind/fzy049 .
^ Nievergelt, Marco (2019).
"Zamir, Tzachi; Ascent: Philosophy and Paradise Lost . New York: Oxford University Press, 2018; pp. x + 216" .
Journal of Religious History . 43 (3): 443–6.
doi :
10.1111/1467-9809.12606 .
S2CID
203476204 .
^ Gaskin, Richard (28 February 2018).
"Ascent: Philosophy and Paradise Lost" .
^ MacKay, Ellen (2019).
"Recent Studies in Tudor and Stuart Drama" . SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 . 59 (2): 429–79.
doi :
10.1353/sel.2019.0021 .
S2CID
191726266 .
^ McGregor, Rafe (2020).
"Tzachi Zamir, "Just Literature: Philosophical Criticism and Justice." " . Philosophy in Review . 40 (4): 179–81.
doi :
10.7202/1074039ar .
S2CID
229513068 .
^ Hanganu-Bresch, Cristina; Kondrlik, Kristin. (2021). Veg(etari)an Arguments in Culture, History, and Practice: The V Word . Palgrave. p. xxv.
ISBN
978-3-030-53279-6
^ Milburn, J. (2019).
"Vegetarian Eating" . In: Meiselman H. (eds) Handbook of Eating and Drinking . Springer.
ISBN
978-3-319-75388-1
^ Alexander, Neta (12 September 2014).
"Mastering the Theater of the Self" .
Haaretz . Retrieved 18 September 2019 .
External links
https://tzachizamir.huji.ac.il/
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