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All publications | Tzachi Zamir

All publications

Forthcoming
Forthcoming. Cheap Empathy: Sam Lipsyte'S The Ask. In Empathy And The Aesthetic Mind. Bloomsbury.
Forthcoming. Philosophy Learns From Performance: Imaginative Resistance. In Philosophy, Analytic Aesthetics, And Theatre. Routledge (under contract).
Forthcoming. Imagination, Creativity, And Acting. In Oxford Handbook Of Imagination And Creativity.
2023
2023. Gestures Of/At Art. Aesthetic Investigations, 6, 2, Pp. 141-157. . Publisher's Version
2022
Tzachi Zamir. 9/2022. Review Of Helen Fielding'S Cultivating Perception Through Artworks. The Review Of Metaphysics, 76, 1, Pp. 136-9. . Publisher's Version
2021
Tzachi Zamir. 2021. Role Playing. In Entertaining The Idea: Shakespeare, Performance, And Philosophy, Pp. 19-28. Toronto: Toronto UP.
2020
Tzachi Zamir. 2020. Resisting Friendship In Shakespeare. Memoria Di Shakespeare: A Journal Of Shakespearean Studies, 7, Pp. 215-236. . Publisher's Version Abstract
 Scholars have long sensed that Shakespeare distances himself from the ideology of perfect friendship, so dominant in his culture. This essay participates in this conversation by advancing two explanations for Shakespeare’s distrust of friendship. First, friends limit selves to what they were, preventing some transformations (examples discussed involve the love versus friendship tension played out in some of the comedies). Second, opening one’s heart to a friend requires abandoning self-love when recognizing the varied excellences which friends exhibit (a pattern of friendship resisted suggested by Timon of Athens).     
2019
Just Literature: Philosophical Criticism and Justice
 Everyone admits that some works of literature are profoundly insightful. Yet literary theorists have found it difficult to build upon this foundation. Their primary reservation was that to regard literature as yielding knowledge drives readers away from the complex responses created by powerful works. “Philosophical Criticism” — an approach to literature introduced in this volume — aims to defuse this tension. Philosophical criticism is an attunement to the synergy between the understanding literature enables and the unique experiences it induces.     Justice is this book’s overarching category. Philosophical readings of works by Dante, Shakespeare, Morrison, Coetzee, and Roth will argue that their value as literature is partly constituted by advancing our grasp of justice. Literature is not philosophy; but it may expose a distinction between compassion and pity, reveal a relationship between unfairness and withheld solidarity, or show how moral commitments – to impartiality, to mercy – sometimes rely upon a more fundamental evasion. 
Tzachi Zamir. 2019. &Quot;Justice: Some Reflections On Measure For Measure&Quot;. In The Routledge Companion To Shakespeare And Philosophy, Pp. 279-287. New York: Routledge. . Publisher's Version
2018
Review of Shusterman’s book. 
Tzachi Zamir and Gregory, Currie . 2018. &Quot;Macbeth, Throne Of Blood And The Idea Of A Reflective Adaptation&Quot;. The Journal Of Aesthetics And Art Crticism, 76, 3, Pp. 297-308. . Publisher's Version
Shakespeare's Hamlet - Philosophical Perspectives (Editor)
2017
Ascent: Philosophy and Paradise Lost
2017. Ascent: Philosophy And Paradise Lost. New York: Oxford University Press. . More about this book
2017. Giving Focus. In The Philosophy Of Theatre, Drama And Acting. Rowman & Littlefield. . Publisher's Version
2016
Tzachi Zamir. 2016. Ethics And Shakespearean Tragedy. In The Oxford Handbook Of Shakespearean Tragedy, Pp. 71-88. Oxford UK: Oxford University Press. . Publisher's Version
2015
Tzachi Zamir. 2015. The Inner Paradise. In The Philosophy Of Poetry, Pp. 205-231. Oxford UK: Oxford University Press. . Publisher's Version
Tzachi Zamir. 2015. Death, Life, And Agency In Paradise Lost. Milton Studies, 56, Pp. 201-230.
2014
Acts: Theater, Philosophy, and the Performing Self
Tzachi Zamir. 2014. Acts: Theater, Philosophy, And The Performing Self. Michigan, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. . More about this book