Biography:Tzachi Zamir

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Tzachi Zamir (born 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, and 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 and the edited collection Hamlet: Philosophical Reflections with Oxford University Press.

Personal life

Zamir lives with his wife and three children in Hod Hasharon.[11]

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. 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. Alexander, Neta (12 September 2014). "Mastering the Theater of the Self". Haaretz. http://haaretz.com/.premium-mastering-the-theater-of-the-self-1.5264243. Retrieved 18 September 2019.