Tzachi Zamir Explained

Tzachi Zamir
Nationality:	Israeli
Alma Mater:	Tel Aviv University Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Institutions:	Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Tzachi Zamir (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.^{[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)

External links

https://tzachizamir.huji.ac.il/

Notes and References

1. Web site: Tzachi Zamir - CV. Hebrew University of Jerusalem. en. 2019-01-26.
2. Web site: Tzachi Zamir: Bio & Research. June 2018. Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 16 December 2018.
3. Schweizer, Harold. 2008. Double Vision: Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama (review). Partial Answers. 6. 2. 503–506. 10.1353/pan.0.0013. 145684497.
4. Fulton, Thomas. 2008. Tzachi Zamir. Double Vision: Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama. Renaissance Quarterly. 61. 1. 301–2. 10.1353/ren.2008.0077. 171316057.
5. Hadley, John. 2008. Ethics and the Beast - By Tzachi Zamir. Analytic Philosophy. 49. 3. 279–80. 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.
7. Faria, Cátia. Catia Faria. 2010. Zamir, Tzachi, Ethics and the Beast: A Speciesist Argument for Animal Liberation. Telos. 17. 1. 109–120. Spanish.
8. Daddario, Will. 2015. Acts: Theater, Philosophy, and the Performing Self. By Tzachi Zamir. TDR/The Drama Review. 59. 4. 189–92. 10.1162/DRAM_r_00508. 57563480.
9. Hamilton, James R.. 2015. Acts: Theater, Philosophy, and the Performing Self. The Philosophical Quarterly. 65. 261. 856–9. 10.1093/pq/pqu103.
10. Riggle, Nick. 2015. Acts: Theater, Philosophy, and the Performing Self. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. 2015.09.16.
11. Ascent: Philosophy and Paradise Lost, by Tzachi Zamir . Mind. Moshenska, Joe. 128. 511. 927–35. 10.1093/mind/fzy049. 2019. free.
12. Zamir, Tzachi; Ascent: Philosophy and Paradise Lost. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018; pp. x + 216. 10.1111/1467-9809.12606. Journal of Religious History. 2019. Nievergelt, Marco. 43. 3. 443–6. 203476204 . subscription.
13. Web site: Ascent: Philosophy and Paradise Lost. 28 February 2018 . Gaskin . Richard .
14. Recent Studies in Tudor and Stuart Drama. SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900. 59. 2. 2019. MacKay, Ellen. 429–79. 10.1353/sel.2019.0021. 191726266. subscription.
15. Tzachi Zamir, "Just Literature: Philosophical Criticism and Justice.". Philosophy in Review. McGregor, Rafe. 40. 4. 2020. 179–81. 10.7202/1074039ar. 229513068. free.
16. Hanganu-Bresch, Cristina; Kondrlik, Kristin. (2021). Veg(etari)an Arguments in Culture, History, and Practice: The V Word. Palgrave. p. xxv.
17. Milburn, J. (2019). "Vegetarian Eating". In: Meiselman H. (eds) Handbook of Eating and Drinking. Springer.
18. News: Mastering the Theater of the Self. Alexander, Neta. Haaretz. 12 September 2014. 18 September 2019.