This is a thoroughly argued and, what is much more, a deeply felt book that springs from Margalit's experience at the borderlands of conflicts between Eastern Europeans and Westerners, between Palestinians and Israelis.

This book examines the meaning and nature of idolatry—and, in doing so, reveals much about the monotheistic tradition that defines itself against this sin.The authors consider Christianity and Islam, but focus primarily on Judaism.

On Betrayal offers a philosophical account of thick human relations?relationships with friends, family, and core communities?through their pathology, betrayal. Judgments of betrayal often shift unreliably.

Occidentalism is their groundbreaking investigation of the demonizing fantasies and stereotypes about the Western world that fuel such hatred in the hearts of others.

Much of the intense current interest in collective memory concerns the politics of memory. In a book that asks, "Is there an ethics of memory?" Avishai Margalit addresses a separate, perhaps more pressing, set of concerns.

What if a rotten compromise is politically necessary? Compromise is a great political virtue, especially for the sake of peace. But, as Avishai Margalit argues, there are moral limits to acceptable compromise even for peace.

But as Buruma and Margalit show in this book, the West is the more dangerous mirage of our time, and the idea of us in the minds of our self-proclaimed enemies is still largely unexamined and misunderstood.

In a collection of essays for American readers written over the past two decades, a well-known political commentator in the Israeli press ranges across the whole terrain of Israeli life and history, from Zionism to the meaning of the ...

Avishai Margalits Interesse an Apostasie ist kein theologisches, sondern ein philosophisch-anthropologisches; es zielt nicht auf Gott, sondern auf Menschen.

建立一個人民不會被組織和制度羞辱的有品社會 #「真的把你當人看」的不羞辱人的社會。#台灣成為一個民主社會之後，需要再成為有品社會。人民的尊嚴、就業、福利、隱私，不會 ...