Avishai Margalit

Avishai Margalit
אבישי מרגלית
Born1939
NationalityIsraeli
OccupationPhilosopher
AwardsErnst Bloch Prize, Spinozalens Prize, EMET Prize, Israel Prize
Education
Alma materThe Queens College, Oxford University
Doctoral advisorYehoshua Bar-Hillel
Philosophical work
SchoolMarxism
InstitutionsHebrew University of Jerusalem, Institute for Advanced Study
Main interestslanguage, political philosophy, logic, ethics, meta-ethics
Notable worksOccidentalism: The West in the Eyes of its Enemies
Notable ideasOccidentalism

Avishai Margalit (Hebrew: אבישי מרגלית; born 1939) is an Israeli professor emeritus in philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. From 2006 to 2011, he served as the George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.