Biography:Tzachi Zamir

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Tzachi Zamir
Born1967 (age 58–59)
NationalityIsraeli
Alma materTel Aviv University
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
InstitutionsHebrew University of Jerusalem

Tzachi Zamir (Hebrew: צחי זמיר; 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

  1. "Tzachi Zamir - CV" (in en). Hebrew University of Jerusalem. https://scholars.huji.ac.il/tzachizamir/biocv/cv. 
  2. "Tzachi Zamir: Bio & Research". Hebrew University of Jerusalem. June 2018. https://scholars.huji.ac.il/tzachizamir/biocv. Retrieved 16 December 2018. 
  3. Schweizer, Harold (2008). "Double Vision: Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama (review)". Partial Answers 6 (2): 503–506. doi:10.1353/pan.0.0013. 
  4. Fulton, Thomas (2008). "Tzachi Zamir. Double Vision: Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama". Renaissance Quarterly 61 (1): 301–2. doi:10.1353/ren.2008.0077. 
  5. 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. 
  6. 6.0 6.1 Jones, Robert C.. "Tzachi Zamir, Ethics and the Beast: A Speciesist Argument for Animal Liberation". Philosophy in Review 29 (6): 448–450. https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/pir/article/view/815/1663. 
  7. Faria, Cátia (2010). "Zamir, Tzachi, Ethics and the Beast: A Speciesist Argument for Animal Liberation" (in Spanish). Telos 17 (1): 109–120. http://www.usc.es/revistas/index.php/telos/article/view/286/252. 
  8. 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. 
  9. Hamilton, James R. (2015). "Acts: Theater, Philosophy, and the Performing Self". The Philosophical Quarterly 65 (261): 856–9. doi:10.1093/pq/pqu103. 
  10. Riggle, Nick (2015). "Acts: Theater, Philosophy, and the Performing Self". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2015.09.16). https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/acts-theater-philosophy-and-the-performing-self/. 
  11. Moshenska, Joe (2019). " Ascent: Philosophy and Paradise Lost, by Tzachi Zamir". Mind 128 (511): 927–35. doi:10.1093/mind/fzy049. https://academic.oup.com/mind/article-abstract/128/511/927/5114406?redirectedFrom=fulltext. 
  12. 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. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9809.12606. 
  13. Gaskin, Richard (28 February 2018). "Ascent: Philosophy and Paradise Lost". https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/ascent-philosophy-and-paradise-lost/. 
  14. 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. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/725104. 
  15. McGregor, Rafe (2020). "Tzachi Zamir, "Just Literature: Philosophical Criticism and Justice."". Philosophy in Review 40 (4): 179–81. doi:10.7202/1074039ar. 
  16. 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
  17. Milburn, J. (2019). "Vegetarian Eating". In: Meiselman H. (eds) Handbook of Eating and Drinking. Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-75388-1
  18. Alexander, Neta (12 September 2014). "Mastering the Theater of the Self". Haaretz. https://haaretz.com/.premium-mastering-the-theater-of-the-self-1.5264243. Retrieved 18 September 2019. 

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