Shai Lavi
Biographic Data
| ID | 79028 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shai Lavi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shai |
| FAMILY NAME | Lavi |
| SIGNATURE | LAVI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Liberalism in a post-liberal society: The Israeli case of redemptive politics and avant-garde liberalism
How can liberalism survive and perhaps even thrive in a post-liberal society? Liberal political theories have generally failed to address this question, in the belief that liberal values and institutions offer a sufficient solution to the problem of value diversity and political disagreement. Modous vivendi theories are better suited to meet the challenge, but the emphasis on political stability hinders their ability to address inherently turbule…
Medicine, Technology, and Religion Reconsidered: The Case of Brain Death Definition in Israel
The introduction of respiratory machines in the 1950s may have saved the lives of many, but it also challenged the notion of death itself. This development endowed "machines" with the power to form a unique ontological creature: a live body with a "dead" brain. While technology may be blamed for complicating things in the first place, it is also called on to solve the resulting quandaries. Indeed, it is not the birth of the "brain-dead" that conc…
Our Food is Our Bond: A History of Jewish and Muslim Animal Slaughter and Post-Christian Social Science
Research Article| April 01 2018 Our Food is Our Bond: A History of Jewish and Muslim Animal Slaughter and Post-Christian Social Science Shai Joshua Lavi Shai Joshua Lavi Shai Joshua Lavi is a professor at Tel Aviv University Law Faculty and the Director of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of the Present (2018) 8 (1): 29–56. https://doi.org/10.5406/historypresent.8.1.0029 Cite Ico…
Beyond Natural Potentiality: Brain-Death Pregnancy, Viable Fetuses, and Pre-implanted Embryos
Potentiality plays an important role in bioethical debates concerning embryos and fetuses. In these debates, “conservatives” tend to attribute ethical significance to an organism’s potential for human life, whereas “liberals” are likely to deny both the logical coherence of the concept and its ethical significance. Whether favorable or critical, both sides of the debate have had in mind a very specific sense of potentiality, namely, natural poten…
Emily K. Abel. The Inevitable Hour: A History of Caring for Dying Patients in America
Emily K. Abel’s The Inevitable Hour: A History of Caring for Dying Patients in America explores the American experience of dying from 1880 to 1965. The book examines personal diaries, medical records, hospital regulations, and broader policy reforms to offer a detailed account of both the personal experience of dying and its changing institutional setting. While the book presents a general overview of dying in the U.S., the author pays closer att…
Turning the Tables on Legal History: Parker's Common Law, History, and Democracy in America
Parker's Common Law, History, and Democracy in America joins an ongoing effort to turn the tables on “law and ...” by replacing the familiar question “What can history, sociology, and cultural studies tell us about law?” with a new line of inquiry asking “What can law teach us about the reach and limits of disciplinary thinking?” In his study of the reception of common law into nineteenth‐century American jurisprudence, Parker unearths a notion o…
Visibly Dead: On Making Brain Death Believable
The paper discusses the role of visualization technologies and instrumental devices in the acceptance of “brain death” with rabbinic bodies and the law in Israel. The authors suggest that technologies serve the traditional in the interplay between lay and technical epistemologies, namely where the “corpse” appears to be alive
Cloning International Law: The Science and Science Fiction of Human Cloning and Stem-Cell Patenting
The article offers a critical appraisal of the rise of international governance in the field of genetics and reproductive technologies as “legal cloning.” It critically explores two of the dominant approaches to the homogenization of international law: the instrumentalist approach promoted by legal realists (law and science) and the deterministic approach advanced by legal surrealists (law and science fiction). As an alternative to both, the arti…
Citizenship Revocation as Punishment: On the Modern Duties of Citizens and Their Criminal Breach
Citizenship revocation has recently resurfaced as a source of political and legal debate in many democratic countries. While some countries have rejected the practice mainly on constitutional grounds, others have amended their laws to make it easier for the state to revoke the citizenship of both naturalized and born citizens. Proponents of the practice view it as an administrative measure and a necessary means for defending vital state interests…
The Modern Art of Dying: A History of Euthanasia in the United States
How we die reveals much about how we live. In this provocative book, Shai Lavi traces the history of euthanasia in the United States to show how changing attitudes toward death reflect new and troubling ways of experiencing pain, hope, and freedom. Lavi begins with the historical meaning of euthanasia as signifying an "easeful death." Over time, he shows, the term came to mean a death blessed by the grace of God, and later, medical hastening of d…
From Bioethics to Bio-optics: The Case of the Embryonic Stem Cell
The following paper calls for a shift of views from bioethics to bio-optics, from asking what we should do, to wondering about how things appear and are. It takes as a case study the stem cell controversy and juxtaposes its regulation in Israel and in the United States. As an ethical debate, the embryonic stem cell controversy is often cast as a dispute between liberals and conservatives, scientists and religious fundamentalists. From a bio-optic…
How dying became a ‘life crisis’
The Use of Force Beyond the Liberal Imagination: Terror and Empire in Palestine, 1947
The question of the use of force and its relation to political power has resurfaced in an era of terror attacks and wars against terror. The liberal conceptualization of this relation is limited by the bipolar understanding of force as either legitimate or illegitimate. Turning to the history of the Irgun, a Jewish underground movement, and its struggle against the British Empire in 1947 Palestine, this article seeks to expand the understanding o…
The Jews are Coming”: Vengeance and Revenge in post-Nazi Europe
This paper explores two different modes of revenge practiced by Jewish soldiers and partisans in post-Nazi Europe. The first, revenge proper, involved the targeting and killing of individual war criminals. The second, vengeance, sought in its most extreme form, to repay the German people as a whole. The paper questions the common understanding of these events as spontaneous acts of violence emerging from a universal wish for justice. Vengeance an…
The Modern Art of Dying: A History of Euthanasia in the United States
How we die reveals much about how we live. In this provocative book, Shai Lavi traces the history of euthanasia in the United States to show how changing attitudes toward death reflect new and troubling ways of experiencing pain, hope, and freedom. Lavi begins with the historical meaning of euthanasia as signifying an "easeful death." Over time, he shows, the term came to mean a death blessed by the grace of God, and later, medical hastening of d…
Citizenship Revocation as Punishment: On the Modern Duties of Citizens and Their Criminal Breach
Citizenship revocation has recently resurfaced as a source of political and legal debate in many democratic countries. While some countries have rejected the practice mainly on constitutional grounds, others have amended their laws to make it easier for the state to revoke the citizenship of both naturalized and born citizens. Proponents of the practice view it as an administrative measure and a necessary means for defending vital state interests…
Medicine, Technology, and Religion Reconsidered: The Case of Brain Death Definition in Israel
The introduction of respiratory machines in the 1950s may have saved the lives of many, but it also challenged the notion of death itself. This development endowed "machines" with the power to form a unique ontological creature: a live body with a "dead" brain. While technology may be blamed for complicating things in the first place, it is also called on to solve the resulting quandaries. Indeed, it is not the birth of the "brain-dead" that conc…
Our Food is Our Bond: A History of Jewish and Muslim Animal Slaughter and Post-Christian Social Science
Research Article| April 01 2018 Our Food is Our Bond: A History of Jewish and Muslim Animal Slaughter and Post-Christian Social Science Shai Joshua Lavi Shai Joshua Lavi Shai Joshua Lavi is a professor at Tel Aviv University Law Faculty and the Director of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of the Present (2018) 8 (1): 29–56. https://doi.org/10.5406/historypresent.8.1.0029 Cite Ico…
How dying became a ‘life crisis’
The Use of Force Beyond the Liberal Imagination: Terror and Empire in Palestine, 1947
The question of the use of force and its relation to political power has resurfaced in an era of terror attacks and wars against terror. The liberal conceptualization of this relation is limited by the bipolar understanding of force as either legitimate or illegitimate. Turning to the history of the Irgun, a Jewish underground movement, and its struggle against the British Empire in 1947 Palestine, this article seeks to expand the understanding o…
The Jews are Coming”: Vengeance and Revenge in post-Nazi Europe
This paper explores two different modes of revenge practiced by Jewish soldiers and partisans in post-Nazi Europe. The first, revenge proper, involved the targeting and killing of individual war criminals. The second, vengeance, sought in its most extreme form, to repay the German people as a whole. The paper questions the common understanding of these events as spontaneous acts of violence emerging from a universal wish for justice. Vengeance an…
From Bioethics to Bio-optics: The Case of the Embryonic Stem Cell
The following paper calls for a shift of views from bioethics to bio-optics, from asking what we should do, to wondering about how things appear and are. It takes as a case study the stem cell controversy and juxtaposes its regulation in Israel and in the United States. As an ethical debate, the embryonic stem cell controversy is often cast as a dispute between liberals and conservatives, scientists and religious fundamentalists. From a bio-optic…
How dying became a ‘life crisis’
The Modern Art of Dying: A History of Euthanasia in the United States
How we die reveals much about how we live. In this provocative book, Shai Lavi traces the history of euthanasia in the United States to show how changing attitudes toward death reflect new and troubling ways of experiencing pain, hope, and freedom. Lavi begins with the historical meaning of euthanasia as signifying an "easeful death." Over time, he shows, the term came to mean a death blessed by the grace of God, and later, medical hastening of d…
Citizenship Revocation as Punishment: On the Modern Duties of Citizens and Their Criminal Breach
Citizenship revocation has recently resurfaced as a source of political and legal debate in many democratic countries. While some countries have rejected the practice mainly on constitutional grounds, others have amended their laws to make it easier for the state to revoke the citizenship of both naturalized and born citizens. Proponents of the practice view it as an administrative measure and a necessary means for defending vital state interests…
Cloning International Law: The Science and Science Fiction of Human Cloning and Stem-Cell Patenting
The article offers a critical appraisal of the rise of international governance in the field of genetics and reproductive technologies as “legal cloning.” It critically explores two of the dominant approaches to the homogenization of international law: the instrumentalist approach promoted by legal realists (law and science) and the deterministic approach advanced by legal surrealists (law and science fiction). As an alternative to both, the arti…
Turning the Tables on Legal History: Parker's Common Law, History, and Democracy in America
Parker's Common Law, History, and Democracy in America joins an ongoing effort to turn the tables on “law and ...” by replacing the familiar question “What can history, sociology, and cultural studies tell us about law?” with a new line of inquiry asking “What can law teach us about the reach and limits of disciplinary thinking?” In his study of the reception of common law into nineteenth‐century American jurisprudence, Parker unearths a notion o…
Visibly Dead: On Making Brain Death Believable
The paper discusses the role of visualization technologies and instrumental devices in the acceptance of “brain death” with rabbinic bodies and the law in Israel. The authors suggest that technologies serve the traditional in the interplay between lay and technical epistemologies, namely where the “corpse” appears to be alive
Emily K. Abel. The Inevitable Hour: A History of Caring for Dying Patients in America
Emily K. Abel’s The Inevitable Hour: A History of Caring for Dying Patients in America explores the American experience of dying from 1880 to 1965. The book examines personal diaries, medical records, hospital regulations, and broader policy reforms to offer a detailed account of both the personal experience of dying and its changing institutional setting. While the book presents a general overview of dying in the U.S., the author pays closer att…
Beyond Natural Potentiality: Brain-Death Pregnancy, Viable Fetuses, and Pre-implanted Embryos
Potentiality plays an important role in bioethical debates concerning embryos and fetuses. In these debates, “conservatives” tend to attribute ethical significance to an organism’s potential for human life, whereas “liberals” are likely to deny both the logical coherence of the concept and its ethical significance. Whether favorable or critical, both sides of the debate have had in mind a very specific sense of potentiality, namely, natural poten…
Our Food is Our Bond: A History of Jewish and Muslim Animal Slaughter and Post-Christian Social Science
Research Article| April 01 2018 Our Food is Our Bond: A History of Jewish and Muslim Animal Slaughter and Post-Christian Social Science Shai Joshua Lavi Shai Joshua Lavi Shai Joshua Lavi is a professor at Tel Aviv University Law Faculty and the Director of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of the Present (2018) 8 (1): 29–56. https://doi.org/10.5406/historypresent.8.1.0029 Cite Ico…
Medicine, Technology, and Religion Reconsidered: The Case of Brain Death Definition in Israel
The introduction of respiratory machines in the 1950s may have saved the lives of many, but it also challenged the notion of death itself. This development endowed "machines" with the power to form a unique ontological creature: a live body with a "dead" brain. While technology may be blamed for complicating things in the first place, it is also called on to solve the resulting quandaries. Indeed, it is not the birth of the "brain-dead" that conc…
Liberalism in a post-liberal society: The Israeli case of redemptive politics and avant-garde liberalism
How can liberalism survive and perhaps even thrive in a post-liberal society? Liberal political theories have generally failed to address this question, in the belief that liberal values and institutions offer a sufficient solution to the problem of value diversity and political disagreement. Modous vivendi theories are better suited to meet the challenge, but the emphasis on political stability hinders their ability to address inherently turbule…
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