Avishai Margalit
Avishai Margalit | |
|---|---|
| אבישי מרגלית | |
| Born | 1939 |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Occupation | Philosopher |
| Awards | Ernst Bloch Prize, Spinozalens Prize, EMET Prize, Israel Prize |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | The Queens College, Oxford University |
| Doctoral advisor | Yehoshua Bar-Hillel |
| Philosophical work | |
| School | Marxism |
| Institutions | Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Institute for Advanced Study |
| Main interests | language, political philosophy, logic, ethics, meta-ethics |
| Notable works | Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of its Enemies |
| Notable ideas | Occidentalism |
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.