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)