Tzachi Zamir
Biographic Data
| ID | 322964 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tzachi Zamir |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tzachi |
| FAMILY NAME | Zamir |
| SIGNATURE | ZAMIR T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6019-4474 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Just Literature: Philosophical Criticism and Justice
Shakespeare's Hamlet
Hamlet has long been recognized as concerned with fundamental philosophical issues about identity, responsibility, intimacy, mourning, and agency. How is the play’s address to these issues structured by its distinctively powerful literary-dramatic form and language? What might philosophy have to learn from its mode of address? Is such learning affected by Hamlet being not merely literature, but literature designed to be embodied and voiced on a s…
Philosophical Sex: Philosophical Perspectives
This essay argues that we need to give more thought to sex in Hamlet —to broaden our thinking beyond the critical consensus regarding the protagonist’s “loathing” of sexuality. I suggest that Hamlet’s antisexual disposition is part not only of his investment in a bounded, isolated self, but also of his concomitant bias toward an epistemology that figures knowledge under the sign of possessive dominion. This means that we can apprehend sex philoso…
Amalia Ziv: Explicit Utopias: Rewriting the Sexual in Women’s Pornography
Why Does Comedy Give Pleasure
By way of attempting to explain comic pleasure, this paper proposes an outline for an inclusive theory of comedy — ‘inclusive’ in the sense of amalgamating various past contributions that tend to be thought of as mutually exclusive. More specifically, this essay will (a) propose a teleological definition of comedy, (b) integrate seemingly competing accounts of laughter into a relatively unified explanation, (c) clarify the connection between laug…
Unethical Acts: Winner of The Philosophical Quarterly Essay Prize 2012
The Theatricalization of Death
Eating Animals
Book Review| April 01 2012 Eating Animals Foer, Jonathan Safran, Eating Animals (New York: Back Bay Books, 2009), 341 pp. Tzachi Zamir Tzachi Zamir Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (2): 370–371. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-1545121 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Tzachi Zamir; Eating Animals. Common Knowledge 1 April 2012; 18…
Talking Trees
Moral embodiment" is a construction proposed by this essay to capture ways in which morally significant states may be experienced as modifications of one's relationship with one's body. Literary episodes in which humans are metamorphosed into trees exemplify such changes in relation to states such as guilt, sexual experience, and grief. It will be suggested that such approaches need to be supplemented by the recognition that acknowledging another…
Watching Actors
Dramatic acting is often loosely associated with the freedom to be someone else. This essay presents a philosophical exploration of this idea. It suggests that dramatic acting is a form of what it calls "existential amplification," a fictional actualization of usually unavailable possibilities that partly constitute the self (under one of the self's renderings). Acting is able to fascinate its practitioners and its audiences because it involves s…
The Theatricalization of Love
eaders of leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs (1870) have repeatedly noted the theatrical quality of masochism. The objective of the following reading of the novel is to take seriously and literally the histrionic nomenclature that permeates masochistic role-playing in the novel and—since the novel's eroticism is in part an autobiographical disclosure on Masoch's part—in masochistic sexuality as such. Masochism uniquely informs playacting. …
How Reliable Is Moral Sensitivity
This response to "Morality or Moralism?" by Emilie Hache and Bruno Latour takes issue with their distinction between two kinds of morality. Hache and Latour see a difference between morality as sensitivity and morality as principled claims regarding moral considerability. They then argue for form-content contradiction/harmony between these purportedly opposing senses. In responding, Zamir argues that these operations can be construed as distinct …
Puppets
Reply to Bostock
Passion's Triumph over Reason: A History of the Moral Imagination from Spenser to Rochester
Christopher Tilmouth. Passion's Triumph over Reason: A History of the Moral Imagination from Spenser to Rochester. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. 414 pp. index. bibl. $120. ISBN: 978-0-19-921237-8. - Volume 61 Issue 2
Wooden Subjects
The essay offers a reading of botanical imagery in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus , associating trees with the play's presentation of grief and trauma. I situate the play in relation to Kyd's Spanish Tragedy and its own linkage between trees and violence, and discuss how these plays highlight the dubiousness of tragic pleasure. Shakespeare's response to the misgivings invoked by enjoying tragedy is moral and also psychological, presenting both a …
The Welfare-based Defense of Zoos
A "welfare-based defense" of a practice involving nonhuman animals presents the examined practice as promoting the animal's own interests. Such justifications surface in relation to various interactions between human and nonhuman animals. Sometimes such arguments appear persuasive. Sometimes they form self-serving rationalizations. This paper attempts to clarify and specify the distinction between plausible and dubious applications of such argume…
Shakespeare and the Mismeasure of Renaissance Man
Double vision: Moral philosophy and Shakespearean drama
The Moral Basis of Animal-Assisted Therapy
Is nonhuman animal-assisted therapy (AAT) a form of exploitation? After exploring possible moral vindications of AAT and after establishing a distinction between "use" and "exploitation," the essay distinguishes between forms of animal-assisted therapy that are morally unobjectionable and those modes of it that ought to be abolished
Upon One Bank and Shoal of Time: Literature, Nihilism, and Moral Philosophy
New Literary History - Volume 31, Number 3, Summer 2000
A Case of Unfair Proportions: Philosophy in Literature
New Literary History - Volume 29, Number 3, Summer 1998
The Moral Basis of Animal-Assisted Therapy
Is nonhuman animal-assisted therapy (AAT) a form of exploitation? After exploring possible moral vindications of AAT and after establishing a distinction between "use" and "exploitation," the essay distinguishes between forms of animal-assisted therapy that are morally unobjectionable and those modes of it that ought to be abolished
The Welfare-based Defense of Zoos
A "welfare-based defense" of a practice involving nonhuman animals presents the examined practice as promoting the animal's own interests. Such justifications surface in relation to various interactions between human and nonhuman animals. Sometimes such arguments appear persuasive. Sometimes they form self-serving rationalizations. This paper attempts to clarify and specify the distinction between plausible and dubious applications of such argume…
Why Does Comedy Give Pleasure
By way of attempting to explain comic pleasure, this paper proposes an outline for an inclusive theory of comedy — ‘inclusive’ in the sense of amalgamating various past contributions that tend to be thought of as mutually exclusive. More specifically, this essay will (a) propose a teleological definition of comedy, (b) integrate seemingly competing accounts of laughter into a relatively unified explanation, (c) clarify the connection between laug…
Watching Actors
Dramatic acting is often loosely associated with the freedom to be someone else. This essay presents a philosophical exploration of this idea. It suggests that dramatic acting is a form of what it calls "existential amplification," a fictional actualization of usually unavailable possibilities that partly constitute the self (under one of the self's renderings). Acting is able to fascinate its practitioners and its audiences because it involves s…
Puppets
Wooden Subjects
The essay offers a reading of botanical imagery in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus , associating trees with the play's presentation of grief and trauma. I situate the play in relation to Kyd's Spanish Tragedy and its own linkage between trees and violence, and discuss how these plays highlight the dubiousness of tragic pleasure. Shakespeare's response to the misgivings invoked by enjoying tragedy is moral and also psychological, presenting both a …
A Case of Unfair Proportions: Philosophy in Literature
New Literary History - Volume 29, Number 3, Summer 1998
Upon One Bank and Shoal of Time: Literature, Nihilism, and Moral Philosophy
New Literary History - Volume 31, Number 3, Summer 2000
The Moral Basis of Animal-Assisted Therapy
Is nonhuman animal-assisted therapy (AAT) a form of exploitation? After exploring possible moral vindications of AAT and after establishing a distinction between "use" and "exploitation," the essay distinguishes between forms of animal-assisted therapy that are morally unobjectionable and those modes of it that ought to be abolished
The Welfare-based Defense of Zoos
A "welfare-based defense" of a practice involving nonhuman animals presents the examined practice as promoting the animal's own interests. Such justifications surface in relation to various interactions between human and nonhuman animals. Sometimes such arguments appear persuasive. Sometimes they form self-serving rationalizations. This paper attempts to clarify and specify the distinction between plausible and dubious applications of such argume…
Shakespeare and the Mismeasure of Renaissance Man
Double vision: Moral philosophy and Shakespearean drama
Reply to Bostock
Passion's Triumph over Reason: A History of the Moral Imagination from Spenser to Rochester
Christopher Tilmouth. Passion's Triumph over Reason: A History of the Moral Imagination from Spenser to Rochester. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. 414 pp. index. bibl. $120. ISBN: 978-0-19-921237-8. - Volume 61 Issue 2
Wooden Subjects
The essay offers a reading of botanical imagery in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus , associating trees with the play's presentation of grief and trauma. I situate the play in relation to Kyd's Spanish Tragedy and its own linkage between trees and violence, and discuss how these plays highlight the dubiousness of tragic pleasure. Shakespeare's response to the misgivings invoked by enjoying tragedy is moral and also psychological, presenting both a …
Watching Actors
Dramatic acting is often loosely associated with the freedom to be someone else. This essay presents a philosophical exploration of this idea. It suggests that dramatic acting is a form of what it calls "existential amplification," a fictional actualization of usually unavailable possibilities that partly constitute the self (under one of the self's renderings). Acting is able to fascinate its practitioners and its audiences because it involves s…
The Theatricalization of Love
eaders of leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs (1870) have repeatedly noted the theatrical quality of masochism. The objective of the following reading of the novel is to take seriously and literally the histrionic nomenclature that permeates masochistic role-playing in the novel and—since the novel's eroticism is in part an autobiographical disclosure on Masoch's part—in masochistic sexuality as such. Masochism uniquely informs playacting. …
How Reliable Is Moral Sensitivity
This response to "Morality or Moralism?" by Emilie Hache and Bruno Latour takes issue with their distinction between two kinds of morality. Hache and Latour see a difference between morality as sensitivity and morality as principled claims regarding moral considerability. They then argue for form-content contradiction/harmony between these purportedly opposing senses. In responding, Zamir argues that these operations can be construed as distinct …
Puppets
Talking Trees
Moral embodiment" is a construction proposed by this essay to capture ways in which morally significant states may be experienced as modifications of one's relationship with one's body. Literary episodes in which humans are metamorphosed into trees exemplify such changes in relation to states such as guilt, sexual experience, and grief. It will be suggested that such approaches need to be supplemented by the recognition that acknowledging another…
The Theatricalization of Death
Eating Animals
Book Review| April 01 2012 Eating Animals Foer, Jonathan Safran, Eating Animals (New York: Back Bay Books, 2009), 341 pp. Tzachi Zamir Tzachi Zamir Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (2): 370–371. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-1545121 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Tzachi Zamir; Eating Animals. Common Knowledge 1 April 2012; 18…
Unethical Acts: Winner of The Philosophical Quarterly Essay Prize 2012
Why Does Comedy Give Pleasure
By way of attempting to explain comic pleasure, this paper proposes an outline for an inclusive theory of comedy — ‘inclusive’ in the sense of amalgamating various past contributions that tend to be thought of as mutually exclusive. More specifically, this essay will (a) propose a teleological definition of comedy, (b) integrate seemingly competing accounts of laughter into a relatively unified explanation, (c) clarify the connection between laug…
Amalia Ziv: Explicit Utopias: Rewriting the Sexual in Women’s Pornography
Shakespeare's Hamlet
Hamlet has long been recognized as concerned with fundamental philosophical issues about identity, responsibility, intimacy, mourning, and agency. How is the play’s address to these issues structured by its distinctively powerful literary-dramatic form and language? What might philosophy have to learn from its mode of address? Is such learning affected by Hamlet being not merely literature, but literature designed to be embodied and voiced on a s…
Philosophical Sex: Philosophical Perspectives
This essay argues that we need to give more thought to sex in Hamlet —to broaden our thinking beyond the critical consensus regarding the protagonist’s “loathing” of sexuality. I suggest that Hamlet’s antisexual disposition is part not only of his investment in a bounded, isolated self, but also of his concomitant bias toward an epistemology that figures knowledge under the sign of possessive dominion. This means that we can apprehend sex philoso…
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