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    Models of Critique: Introduction
    Science in Context 10 (1): 3-12. 1997.
    Critique involves reflection, specifically self-reflection, and as such it is inherently linked with philosophy. Critique calls for change, awareness, liberation from false conceptions, and reshaping of spheres of action and belief. Consequently it is closely linked with the moral and the political. Critique aspires to enhance truth, beauty, and justice and is thus an integral part of science, art, and social action. The present volume tackles issues of critique through a selection of papers ori…Read more
  •  8
    8. Abandoning Gaza
    with Ariella Azoulay
    In Marcelo Svirsky & Simone Bignall (eds.), Agamben and Colonialism, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 178-203. 2012.
  •  3
    The Political
    In Ann Laura Stoler, Stathis Gourgouris & Jacques Lezra (eds.), Thinking with Balibar: A Lexicon of Conceptual Practice, Fordham University Press. pp. 158-182. 2020.
  •  1
    Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon
    with Ann Laura Stoler
    Fordham University Press. 2020.
  •  8
    Exit, voice, loyalty: The case of the BDS
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 46 (1): 25-33. 2020.
    The essay proposes an unexpected alliance between two of the figures assembled in the impressive intellectual constellation Benhabib presents in her new book: Albert O. Hirschman and Judith Butler. Hirschman’s model of ‘exit, voice, loyalty’ is used to interpret and justify the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel.
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    The Two-State Solution: Providence and Catastrophe
    Theoretical Inquiries in Law 8 (1): 117-160. 2007.
    One of the most significant, incontestable, and relatively ignored aspects of modernity is the new role states play as generators and facilitators of disasters, on the one hand, and as authors — or at least facilitators, sponsors, and coordinators — of survival and relief operations, on the other hand. The relation of the modern state to disaster has played an important role in the emergence of the state as a "totalizing totality" and in the constitution of its image as a historical subject. Thi…Read more
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    A new moral theory from an Israeli philosopher and activist emphasizing theexistential and political nature of evil.
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    Michel Foucault and the Semiotics of the Phenomenal
    Dialogue 27 (3): 387-. 1988.
    In every search for knowledge one presupposes that there is more to the phenomenal field one studies than what meets the eye. A play between those phenomena thatpresentthemselves to an observer andabsententities or phenomena, and the orders, structures or laws that govern these, lies at the heart of anysearchfor empirical knowledge. On the basis of this play of presence and absence read by a particular discourse into a more or less defined phenomenal field, phenomena are constitutedquasigns for …Read more
  •  3
    The One-State Condition: Occupation and Democracy in Israel/Palestine
    with Ariella Azoulay
    Stanford University Press. 2012.
    Since the start of the occupation of Palestinian territories in 1967, Israel's domination of the Palestinians has deprived an entire population of any political status or protection. But even decades on, most people speak of this rule—both in everyday political discussion and in legal and academic debates—as temporary, as a state of affairs incidental and external to the Israeli regime. In _The One-State Condition_, Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir directly challenge this belief. Looking closely at…Read more
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    The Place of Knowledge A Methodological Survey
    with Steven Shapin
    Science in Context 4 (1): 3-22. 1991.
    A generation ago scientific ideas floated free in the air, as historians gazed up at them in wonder and admiration. From time to time, historians agreed, the ideas that made up the body of scientific truth became incarnate: they were embedded into the fleshly forms of human culture and attached to particular times and places. How this incarnation occurred was a great mystery. How could spirit be made flesh? How did the transcendent and the timeless enter the forms of the mundane and the continge…Read more
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    This book offers an original and detailed reading of Plato's _Republic_, one of the most influential philosophical works in the emergence of Western philosophy. The author discusses the _Republic_ in terms of discursive events and political acts. Plato's act is placed in the context of a politico-discursive crisis in Athens at the end of the fifth and the beginning of the fourth century B.C that gave rise to the dialogue's primary question, that of justice. The originality of Dr. Ophir lies in t…Read more
  •  4
    A methodological survey
    with Steven Shapin
    In Nico Stehr & Reiner Grundmann (eds.), Knowledge: Critical Concepts, Routledge. pp. 1--1. 2005.
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    How to take aim at the heart of the present and remain analytic
    International Journal of Philosophical Studies 9 (3). 2001.
    In his famous lecture on Kant's essay 'An Answer to the Question What is Enlightenment' Foucault distinguished between two traditions in modern philosophy coming out of Kant's work: 'an analytic of truth' and 'an ontology of present reality [ actualité ]' or 'a genealogy of ourselves'. The paper presents this distinction as a fruitful displacement of the distinction between 'analytic' and 'continental' philosophy,which gives the latter precise cultural and philosophical meaning. The paper clarif…Read more
  • Plato's Invisible Cities: Discourse and Power in the Republic
    with Zdravko Planinc
    Utopian Studies 5 (1): 209-211. 1994.
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    A Place of Knowledge Re-Created: The Library of Michel de Montaigne
    Science in Context 4 (1): 163-190. 1991.
    The ArgumentMontaigne'sEssayswere an exercise in self-knowledge carried out for more than twenty years in Montaigne's private library located in his mansion near Bordeaux. The library was a place of solitude as well as a place of knowledge, a kind ofheterotopiain which two sets of spatial relations coexisted and interacted: the social and the epistemic. The spatial demarcation and arrangement of the site – in both the physical and the symbolic sense – were necessary elements of the constitution …Read more
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    Two-Tier Thinking: A Moral Point of View
    Science in Context 9 (2): 177-188. 1996.
    Among those who know Yehuda's work, the term “two-tier thinking” is usually associated with a problematic relativist position. But “two-tier thinking” is not a name for a philosophical argument; it is best understood, I think, as a term designating certain conditions of knowledge: universal, or modern, or perhaps only postmodern conditions, but in any case, they are generalizations derived from anthropological and psychological observations on matters of facts. This is how things actually work i…Read more
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    Le sionisme, l'État d'Israël et le régime israélien
    with Ariella Azoulay
    Cités 47 (3): 67. 2011.