Avishai Margalit

Avishai Margalit is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently the George Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His forthcoming book is On Compromise and Rotten Compromises. Michael Walzer is Professor Emeritus of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and co-editor of Dissent. He is the author of Just and Unjust Wars. (May 2009)

From the Review

June 11, 2009: 'Israel & the Rules of War': An Exchange

May 14, 2009: Israel: Civilians & Combatants

December 6, 2007: A Moral Witness to the 'Intricate Machine'*

Dark Hope: Working for Peace in Israel and Palestine by David Shulman

April 26, 2007: Sorry (letter)

April 12, 2007: The Lessons of Spinoza*

The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World by Matthew Stewart

Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity by Rebecca Goldstein

October 20, 2005: The Genius of Spinoza*

Spinoza and Spinozism by Stuart Hampshire

March 11, 2004: Seeds of Revolution*

October 9, 2003: After Strange Gods*

The Prophets: Who They Were, What They Are by Norman Podhoretz

March 13, 2003: The Wrong War

January 16, 2003: The Suicide Bombers

January 17, 2002: Occidentalism*

November 1, 2001: Sophistry & the Settlers (letter)

September 20, 2001: Settling Scores*

May 17, 2001: The Middle East: Snakes & Ladders

September 21, 2000: The Odds Against Barak*

August 12, 1999: Israel: Why Barak Won*

May 28, 1998: The Other Israel*

July 11, 1996: It Wasn't 1984 (letter)

May 9, 1996: The Chances of Shimon Peres*

Battling for Peace: A Memoir by Shimon Peres

October 5, 1995: The Terror Master*

Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies Defeat Domestic and International Terrorists by Benjamin Netanyahu

February 17, 1994: The Uses of the Holocaust*

The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust by Tom Segev

November 4, 1993: Prophets With Honor*

Judaism, Human Values, and the Jewish State by Yeshayahu Leibowitz, edited by Eliezer Goldman, translated by Eliezer Goldman, by Yoram Navon, by Zvi Jacobson, by Gershon Levi, by Raphael Levy

The Letters of Martin-Buber: A Life of Dialogue edited by Nahum N. Glatzer, by Paul Mendes-Flohr, translated by Richard Winston, by Clara Winston, by Harry Zohn

Encounter on the Narrow Ridge: A Life of Martin Buber by Maurice Friedman

On Intersubjectivity and Cultural Creativity by Martin Buber, edited by S.N. Eisenstadt

Scripture and Translation by Martin Buber, by Franz Rosenzweig, translated by Lawrence Rosenwald, by Everett Fox

June 11, 1992: The General's Main Chance*

May 14, 1992: The Violent Life of Yitzhak Shamir*

March 5, 1992: An Exchange on Jerusalem

December 19, 1991: The Myth of Jerusalem

June 27, 1991: The Great White Hope*

April 26, 1990: High Noon at the Likud Corral

Warrior: The Autobiography of Ariel Sharon by Ariel Sharon, by David Chanoff

Sharon: An Israeli Caesar by Uzi Benziman

November 9, 1989: Israel: The Rise of the Ultra-Orthodox*

March 30, 1989: 'The Kitsch of Israel' (letter)

November 24, 1988: The Kitsch of Israel*

June 2, 1988: Understanding the Uprising*

The Yellow Wind by David Grossman, Translated from the Hebrew by Haim Watzman

October 23, 1986: The Birth of a Tragedy*

The Tragedy of Zionism by Bernard Avishai

Conflicts and Contradictions by Meron Benvenisti

September 26, 1985: Passage to Palestine*

Palestinian Leadership on the West Bank by Moshe Ma'oz

1949—The First Israelis by Tom Segev

August 16, 1984: Chomsky's 'Fateful Triangle': An Exchange

June 28, 1984: Israel: A Partial Indictment*

The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky

Books by Avishai Margalit

Ethics of Memory (2002)
Views in Review: Politics and Culture in the State of the Jews (1998)
The Decent Society (1996)