%0 Book Section %B Entertaining the Idea: Shakespeare, Performance, and Philosophy %D 2021 %T Role Playing %A Zamir, Tzachi %E Gallagher, Lowell; Kearney, James; Lupton, Julia Reinhard %B Entertaining the Idea: Shakespeare, Performance, and Philosophy %I Toronto UP %C Toronto %P 19-28 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Memoria di Shakespeare: A journal of Shakespearean Studies %D 2020 %T Resisting Friendship in Shakespeare %A Zamir, Tzachi %X

 

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).    

 

%B Memoria di Shakespeare: A journal of Shakespearean Studies %P 215-236 %G eng %U https://statusquaestionis.uniroma1.it/index.php/MemShakespeare/issue/view/1602/showToc %N 7 %0 Book %D 2019 %T Just Literature: Philosophical Criticism and Justice %A Zamir, Tzachi %X

 

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.

 

%I Routledge %C New York %G eng %U https://www.routledge.com/Just-Literature-Philosophical-Criticism-and-Justice/Zamir/p/book/9781138091689 %0 Book Section %B The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Philosophy %D 2019 %T "Justice: Some Reflections on Measure for Measure" %A Zamir, Tzachi %E Craig Bourne %E Emily Caddic Bourne %B The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Philosophy %I Routledge %C New York %P 279-287 %G eng %U https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Shakespeare-and-Philosophy/Bourne-Bourne/p/book/9781138936126 %0 Journal Article %J The Journal of Aesthetic Education %D 2018 %T Philosophy and/of Performance: A Discussion of Richard Shusterman's The Adventures of the Man in Gold %A Zamir, Tzachi %X

Review of Shusterman's book. 

%B The Journal of Aesthetic Education %V 52 %P 116-123 %G eng %U https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jaesteduc.52.4.0116?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents %N 4 %0 Journal Article %J The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Crticism %D 2018 %T "Macbeth, Throne of Blood and the Idea of a Reflective Adaptation" %A Zamir, Tzachi %A Currie Gregory %B The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Crticism %V 76 %P 297-308 %G eng %U https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jaac.12562 %N 3 %0 Book %D 2018 %T Shakespeare's Hamlet - Philosophical Perspectives (Editor) %I Oxford University Press %C New York %G eng %U https://global.oup.com/academic/product/shakespeares-hamlet-9780190698515?cc=il&lang=en&# %0 Book %D 2017 %T Ascent: Philosophy and Paradise Lost %I Oxford University Press %C New York %8 2017 %G eng %U https://global.oup.com/academic/product/ascent-9780190695088?q=zamir&lang=en&cc=il# %0 Book Section %B The Philosophy of Theatre, Drama and Acting %D 2017 %T Giving Focus %E Tom Stern %B The Philosophy of Theatre, Drama and Acting %I Rowman & Littlefield %8 2017 %G eng %U https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781783486236/The-Philosophy-of-Theatre-Drama-and-Acting %0 Journal Article %J Sexuality & Culture %D 2016 %T Review of Amalia Ziv's Explicit Utopias: Rewritiing the Sexual in Women's Pornography %B Sexuality & Culture %G eng %U http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/501/art%253A10.1007%252Fs12119-016-9396-4.pdf?originUrl=http%3A%2F%2Flink.springer.com%2Farticle%2F10.1007%2Fs12119-016-9396-4&token2=exp=1480238964~acl=%2Fstatic%2Fpdf%2F501%2Fart%25253A10.1007%25252Fs12119-016-939 %0 Book Section %B The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy %D 2016 %T Ethics and Shakespearean Tragedy %A Zamir, Tzachi %E Neill, M. %E Schalkwyk, D. %B The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy %I Oxford University Press %C Oxford UK %P 71-88 %@ 9780191036156 %G eng %U https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-shakespearean-tragedy-9780198724193?cc=il&lang=en& %& 5 %0 Journal Article %J Milton Studies %D 2015 %T Death, Life, and Agency in Paradise Lost %A Zamir, Tzachi %K 1600-1699 %K English literature %K life %K Milton, John (1608-1674) %K Paradise Lost (1667) %K poetry %K relationship to agency %K treatment of death %B Milton Studies %V 56 %P 201-230 %@ 0076-8820 %G eng %0 Book Section %B The Philosophy of Poetry %D 2015 %T The Inner Paradise %A Zamir, Tzachi %E Gibson, John %B The Philosophy of Poetry %I Oxford University Press %C Oxford UK %P 205-231 %@ 9780191045615 %G eng %U https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-philosophy-of-poetry-9780199603671?cc=il&lang=en& %0 Book %D 2014 %T Acts: Theater, Philosophy, and the Performing Self %A Zamir, Tzachi %I University of Michigan Press %C Michigan, Ann Arbor %@ 9780472052134 %G eng %U https://www.press.umich.edu/6610419/acts %! Acts %0 Journal Article %J British Journal of Aesthetics %D 2014 %T Why Does Comedy Give Pleasure? %A Zamir, Tzachi %X

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 laughter and comedy, (d) defend a flexible ontology of comic response that enables the coexistence of genuinely competing paradigms of the mind (which, in turn, underlie seemingly competing theories of comic reception), and (e) will suggest how comic pleasure forms an indispensable addition to a theory of comedy.

%B British Journal of Aesthetics %S Tragedy and Comedy %V 54 %P 175-190 %8 04/01/ %@ 0007-0904 %G eng %9 Journal Article %0 Book Section %B Pornographic Art and the Aesthetics of Pornography %D 2013 %T Pornography and Acting %A Zamir, Tzachi %E Maes, H. %B Pornographic Art and the Aesthetics of Pornography %I Palgrave Macmillan UK %P 75-99 %@ 9781137367938 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Philosophical Quarterly %D 2013 %T Unethical Acts Unethical Acts : Winner of The Philosophical Quarterly Essay Prize 2012 %A Zamir, Tzachi %K ACTING %K drama %K ETHICS %K PERFORMING arts %K THEATER %X

An essay on dramatic acting with regards to unethical conduct on stage is presented. It explores how acting provokes ethical questions despite being viewed as an unproblematic and laudable art form. It charts the nature and scope of ethical issues in which the actor operates and discusses two responses to the questions. The author suggests that value-related ambiguity can be a way through which the uniqueness of acting as a performing art can be understood.

%B Philosophical Quarterly %I Oxford University Press / USA %V 63 %P 353-373 %@ 00318094 %G eng %U http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/1467-9213.12038/full %9 Article %M 86171453 %0 Journal Article %J Journal of Medical HumanitiesJournal of Medical Humanities %D 2012 %T The Theatricalization of Death %A Zamir, Tzachi %K Eating disorders -- Analysis %X The essay analyzes anorexia as a theatrical performance, complete with its chosen acting school and particular dramatic features (plot, acting style, suspense-establishing mechanisms and motifs). %B Journal of Medical HumanitiesJournal of Medical Humanities %I Springer %P 141 %@ 1041-3545 %G eng %9 Report %M edsgcl.314456841 %0 Journal Article %J Theatre Topics %D 2012 %T Lsitening to Actors %A Zamir, Tzachi %K ACTING %K ACTORS %K BERRY, Cicely %K ROYAL Shakespeare Co. %K VOICE %X

The article examines centrality of voice to acting, the relation of voice to existential amplification and the role of actor's voice in seven dimensions of the relationship between character and thought. It is stated that striking, memorable acting is bound with effects created by modifications in the actor's voice. Royal Shakespeare Company voice trainer Cicely Berry stated that young actors shun intense work on their voices since it threatens the performer with artificiality and loss of self.

%B Theatre Topics %V 22 %P 115 %8 09// %@ 10548378 %G eng %0 Book Section %B The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare %D 2012 %T Philosophy %A Zamir, Tzachi %E Kinney, Arthur F. %K 'Sonnet 71: Noe Longer mourne for me when I am dead' %K 1500-1599 %K English literature %K poetry %K relationship to philosophy %K Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) %B The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare %I Oxford UP %C Oxford, England %P 623-640 %@ 9780199566105 (hbk.) %G eng %6 xxi, 823 pp. %0 Journal Article %J The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism %D 2012 %T Reading Drama %A Zamir, Tzachi %B The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism %I Wiley Subscription Services %V 70 %P 179-192 %@ 0021852915406245 %G eng %N 2 %9 research article %0 Book Section %B The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics %D 2011 %T Literary Works and Animal Ethics %A Zamir, Tzachi %X The essay discusses moral dimensions of literary descriptions of animals. Topics covered include literary presentations of slaughter, of humans looking at animals (and vice versa), and of forms of attachment between humans and companion animals. Throughout, the essay aims to connect the portrayal of animals in literature with ongoing work in aesthetics on the moral contributions of literary works. %B The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics %I Oxford Univ Pr %C Oxford %@ 9780195371963 %G eng %0 Book Section %B Shakespeare and Moral Agency %D 2011 %T The Fool, the Blind and the Jew %A Zamir, Tzachi %E Bristol, M.D. %B Shakespeare and Moral Agency %I Bloomsbury Publishing %P 142-158 %@ 9781441120472 %G eng %U https://books.google.co.il/books/about/Shakespeare_and_Moral_Agency.html?id=Sh6hLWXhEU0C&source=kp_cover&redir_esc=y %0 Journal Article %J New Literary History %D 2011 %T Talking trees %A Zamir, Tzachi %K Ethics -- Analysis %K Trees -- Analysis %K United States %B New Literary History %I Johns Hopkins University Press %P 439 %@ 0028-6087 %G eng %9 Essay %M edsgcl.274545046 %0 Magazine Article %D 2010 %T The Theatricalization of Love %A Zamir, Tzachi %I The Johns Hopkins University Press %P 129 %@ 002860871080661X %G eng %9 research article %0 Magazine Article %D 2010 %T Watching Actors %A Zamir, Tzachi %X 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 such self-expansion. The essay then distinguishs the uniqueness of this kind of amplification from other forms of living more through art or literature. It presents an elaborate comparison between acting (or responding to acting) and reading literary works (or engaging with literary characters); it also defends a version of the distinction between acting and pretending. Finally, the essay asks whether some forms of acting are morally objectionable, given its analysis of acting's metaphysical structure. %I Johns Hopkins University Press %P 227 %@ 019228821086332X %G eng %9 research article %0 Journal Article %J Critical Inquiry %D 2010 %T Puppets %A Zamir, Tzachi %K Aesthetics -- Analysis %K Performing arts -- Evaluation %K Puppet theater -- Evaluation %K Puppet theaters -- Evaluation %B Critical Inquiry %I University of Chicago Press %P 386 %@ 0093-1896 %G eng %9 Viewpoint essay %M edsgcl.227764906 %0 Journal Article %J Criticism and Interpretation: Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Culture %D 2010 %T Representing money in the English Renaissance [Hebrew] %A Zamir, Tzachi %K 1500-1599 %K English literature %K poetry %K relationship to aesthetic values %K Spenser, Edmund (1552?-1599) %K The Faerie Queene (1590-1596) %K treatment of money %B Criticism and Interpretation: Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Culture %V 42 %P xiii %@ 0084-9456 %G eng %M 2014401122. Gloss: In special issue: 'Esteṭiḳah poeṭiḳah ve-kiriot ḥadashot' %0 Journal Article %J The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism %D 2009 %T Theatrical Repetition and Inspired Performance %A Zamir, Tzachi %X

To authenticate to the full-text of this article, please visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6245.2009.01366.x Byline: TZACHI ZAMIR (1) Author Affiliation: (1)The Hebrew University of JerusalemDepartment of English and Comparative LiteratureJerusalem, Israelinternet:tzachizamir@mscc.huji.ac.il

%B The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism %I Wiley Subscription Services, Inc. %P 365 %@ 0021-8529 %G eng %M edsgcl.215469265 %0 Journal Article %J Society & Animals %D 2008 %T Reply to Bostock %A Zamir, Tzachi %K ANIMAL rights %K ANIMAL welfare %K BOSTOCK, Stephen %K EDITORIALS %K ZOOS %K ZOOS & Animal Rights (Book) %X

The author comments on issues raised in Stephen Bostock's book "Zoos and Animal Rights." According to the author, Bostock's book is intended to improve the lot of nonhuman animals kept by humans. He argues that zoos involve a deeper moral violation that has nothing to do with compromising welfare. He criticizes the notion that zoos are for education or appreciation of the wonder of animals.

%B Society & Animals %I Brill Academic Publishers %V 16 %P 188-190 %@ 10631119 %G eng %9 Article %M 31992002 %0 Journal Article %J New Literary History %D 2008 %T Wooden Subjects %A Zamir, Tzachi %B New Literary History %I The Johns Hopkins University Press %V 39 %P 277-300 %@ 002860871080661X %G eng %9 research article %0 Book %D 2007 %T Double vision: moral philosophy and Shakespearean drama %A Zamir, Tzachi %I Princeton University Press %C New Jersey %P xv, 234 p. %@ 0691125635 (hardcover alk. paper)9780691125633 (hbk.) %G eng %U http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8300.html %M 14334617 %L Jefferson or Adams Building Reading Rooms PR3001; .Z36 2007Jefferson or Adams Building Reading Rooms - STORED OFFSITE PR3001; .Z %! Double Vision %0 Book %D 2007 %T Ethics and the beast : a speciesist argument for animal liberation %A Zamir, Tzachi %K Animal welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects %K Speciesism %I Princeton, N.J. :Princeton University Press,2007. %@ 9780691133287069113328X %G eng %U http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8578.html %9 Non-fiction %0 Journal Article %J Society & Animals %D 2007 %T The Welfare-based Defense of Zoos %A Zamir, Tzachi %K ANIMAL behavior %K ANIMAL sanctuaries %K ANIMAL welfare %K Animals %K choice %K HUMAN-animal relationships %K moderate animal liberationists %K moral status %K MORAL VEGANISM %K MORALLY ACCEPTABLE %K PATERNALISM %K RESPECT %K USE/EXPLOITATION %K ZOOS %X

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 arguments. It then examines (and rejects) a detailed welfare-based defense of zoos. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]Copyright of Society & Animals is the property of Brill Academic Publishers and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

%B Society & Animals %I Brill Academic Publishers %V 15 %P 191-201 %@ 10631119 %G eng %9 Article %M 25425581 %0 Journal Article %J Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly %D 2006 %T Inscribing Justice in Kafka's 'In the Penal Colony' (in Hebrew) %A Zamir, Tzachi %X

Kafka's short story foregrounds an essential relationship between punishment and language: punishment presupposes language and the mediation of discursive meaning through pain. The story prompts the realization that justice, punishment, and painful inscription are interlinked to some degree by all philosophical theories of punishment, thus detracting from the humane and progressive guise they don (relative to traditional forms of punishment). Kafka's fable thus embodies the disturbing recognition that even liberal theories of punishment are implicated in chilling forms of instrumentalization (whilst occluding this process). Kafka's story informs our own understanding of justice by offering an uncanny caricature that ought to be confronted by any comprehensive theory of justice. Relating to the story as a literal enactment of the abstract structure of punishment exposes startling links between punishment and components such as ritual, technology, and the attribution of "humane" conduct to those who punish. More specifically, Kafka draws unsettling links between ritualistic aspects of punishment and communitarian bonding by reaffirmation of shared values. He also delicately touches on the role of technology within punishment by exposing how deploying technology as a part of punishment forms a mode of laudatory self-shaping.

%B Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly %V 55 %P 381-398 %8 10/01/ %@ 0021-3306 %G eng %9 Journal Article %0 Journal Article %J Journal of Applied Philosophy %D 2006 %T Killing for Knowledge %A Zamir, Tzachi %X

abstract

%B Journal of Applied Philosophy %I Wiley Subscription Services, Inc. %P 17 %@ 0264-3758 %G eng %9 Author abstract %M edsgcl.158638719 %0 Journal Article %J Society & Animals %D 2006 %T The Moral Basis of Animal-Assisted Therapy %A Zamir, Tzachi %K EXPLOITATION of humans %K LABORATORY animals %K MEDICAL ethics %K MEDICAL technology %K THERAPEUTICS %K WORKING animals %X

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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]Copyright of Society & Animals is the property of Brill Academic Publishers and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

%B Society & Animals %I Brill Academic Publishers %V 14 %P 179-199 %@ 10631119 %G eng %9 Article %M 20561598 %0 Journal Article %J Acta Philosophica Fennica %D 2006 %T The Moral Basis of Philosophical Criticism %A Zamir, Tzachi %X

I argue that many claims regarding the relations between philosophy and literature basically rehabilitate the old justifications of rhetoric. I then address the following challenges: (1) how to justify the idea that an appeal to "one's whole being" (rather than one's argumentative capacities) forms an advantage in moral philosophy; (2) how to explicate moral growth through art in the absence of idealistic and theological frameworks that explained such edification in the past; (3) how to formulate an error theory that can distinguish between reasoning and reasoning rationally when one admits the suggestive capacities of art and rhetoric into a mode of inquiry (philosophy) aimed at enhanced moral understanding.

%B Acta Philosophica Fennica %V 79 %P 75-98 %8 01/01/ %@ 0355-1792 %G eng %9 Journal Article %0 Journal Article %J Philosophia %D 2006 %T Is Speciesism Opposed to Liberationism? %A Zamir, Tzachi %X

'Speciesism' accords greater value to human beings and their interests. It is supposed to be opposed to a liberationist stance, since it is precisely the numerous forms of discounting of animal interests which liberationists oppose. This association is mistaken. In this paper I claim that many forms of speciesism are consistent with upholding a robust liberationist agenda. Accordingly, several hotly disputed topics in animal ethics can be set aside. The significance of such clarification is that synthesizing liberationism with speciesism substantially modifies some of the coordinates of the debates over animal ethics. Secondly, defusing some counterintuitive implications of liberationism may make liberationism more popular than it currently is. Liberationism would no longer demand the eradication of ingrained speciesist intuitions. The paper finally presents a form of speciesism that does oppose liberationism, but is too strong and (fortunately) shared by few.

%B Philosophia %I Springer %P 465 %@ 0048-3893 %G eng %9 Author abstract %M edsgcl.161604622 %0 Journal Article %J Partial Answers %D 2004 %T On Being Too Deeply Loved %A Zamir, Tzachi %B Partial Answers %V 2 %P 1 %8 06// %@ 15653668 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Between the Species %D 2004 %T Killing for Pleasure %A Zamir, Tzachi %X

This paper formulates and defends a version of moral vegetarianism. Since eating animals is not causally connected to their death, I begin with analyzing the moral status of consumer actions that do not, taken on their own, harm animals . I then formulate a version of moral vegetarianism. Three different opponents of moral vegetarianism are then distinguished and criticized. I then take up the argument according to which eating animals benefits them. I close with the question of the desirability of collective vegetarianism from the point of view of animals.

%B Between the Species %V 13 %P 1-27 %8 01/01/ %@ 1945-8487 %G eng %9 Journal Article %0 Journal Article %J Sophia %D 2004 %T The Sense of Smell: Morality and Rhetoric in the Bramhall-Hobbes Controversy %A Zamir, Tzachi %X

Olfactoric imagery is abundantly employed in the Bramhall-Hobbes controversy. I survey some examples and then turn to the possible significance of this. I argue that by forcing Hobbes into the figurative exchange Bramhall scores points in terms of moving the controversy into ground that is not covered by the limited view of rationality that Hobbes is committed to according to his rhetoric (at least as Bramhall perceives it). Bramhall clearly wants to move from cool argument to a more affluent rhetorical appeal. I argue that choosing such a richer epistemology coheres with Bramhall's deeper anxieties regarding the moral method used in the Leviathan. This essay thus deviates from other form-content analysis of Hobbes, in attempting to examine his rhetoric in practice, under the pressure of controversy. My more general concern is in relating seemingly formal polemical choices to moral concerns.

%B Sophia %V 43 %P 49-61 %8 10/01/ %@ 0038-1527 %G eng %9 Journal Article %0 Journal Article %J Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly %D 2004 %T On the Transcoding of Love and the Sacred %A Zamir, Tzachi %X

Beginning with Durkheim's analysis of secular rituals, this essay explores the spillover from love-talk to religious-talk in Plato's 'Phaedrus', Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' and Sacher-Masoch's 'Venus in Furs'. Religious categories are deployed in these texts in three distinct ways: in Plato, the temptation to worship the beloved is present but is also avoided because of shame; in Shakespeare, the category of worship enables positing the loved one's supposed holiness in order for it to be transgressed; whilst in Sacher-Masoch, worship and ritual in relation to the love object are literally acted out. I claim that such moments exemplify three ways of relating to erotic merging and three modalities of creating erotic force. The essay's grander thesis is that the contemporary aggrandizing of love, the present-day "religion of love" in secular culture, can be understood through erotic love's (rather limited) ability to channel and feed needs that were previously organized into religious experience.

%B Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly %V 53 %P 151-166 %8 04/01/ %@ 0021-3306 %G eng %9 Journal Article %0 Journal Article %J Journal of Social Philosophy %D 2004 %T Veganism %A Zamir, Tzachi %K ETHICS %K SOCIAL theory %K VEGANISM %K VEGANS %K VEGETARIANS %X

The article discusses the social philosophy of vegans. Vegans charge moral vegetarians with inconsistency: if eating animals is a participation in a wrong practice, consuming eggs and dairy products is likewise wrong because it is a cooperation with systematic exploitation. Vegans say that even the more humane parts of the contemporary dairy and egg industry rely on immoral practices, and that therefore moral vegetarianism is too small a step in the right direction. According to vegans, moral vegetarians have conceded that animals are not means; that human pleasure cannot override animal suffering and death; that some industries ought to be banned; and that all this carries practical implications as to their own actions. Yet they stop short of a full realization of what speciesist culture involves and what living a moral life in such an environment requires. Moral vegans distinguish themselves from moral vegetarians in accepting the practical prescriptions of altogether avoiding benefiting from animal exploitation, not just of avoiding benefiting from the killing. Vegans take the killing to be merely one aspect of the systematic exploitation of animals. The moral logic of veganism appears sound. The viability of moral vegetarianism depends on the ability to establish a meaningful difference between animal-derived products which they boycott, and those that they consume. Moral vegetarians agree that the egg and dairy industry has to be radically reformed.

%B Journal of Social Philosophy %I Wiley-Blackwell %V 35 %P 367-379 %8 Fall2004 %@ 00472786 %G eng %9 Article %M 14069355 %0 Journal Article %J MetaphilosophyMetaphilosophy %D 2002 %T An Epistemological Basis For Linking Philosophy and Literature %A Zamir, Tzachi %K COGNITION in literature %K PHILOSOPHY in literature %X In this article I attempt to present an explanation that integrates the five features needed for the cognitive (knowledge-yielding) linking of philosophy and literature. These features are, first, explaining how a literary work can support a general claim. Second, explaining what is uniquely gained through concentrating on such support patterns as they appear in aesthetic contexts in particular. Third, explaining how features of aesthetic response are connected with knowledge. Four, maintaining a distinction between manipulation and adequate persuasion. Five, achieving all this without invoking what David Novitz has called “a shamelessly functional and didactic view of literature.” [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]Copyright of Metaphilosophy is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.) %B MetaphilosophyMetaphilosophy %I Wiley-Blackwell %V 33 %P 321 %@ 00261068 %G eng %9 Article %M 6719247 %0 Journal Article %J Mosaic %D 2002 %T Doing nothing %A Zamir, Tzachi %K Figures of speech -- Analysis %K Hamlet (Play) -- Analysis %X

This essay argues that by structuring specific patterns of response, a work of literature (Hamlet) can create an awareness that cannot be achieved through systematic philosophical presentation. The play's extensive [...]

%B Mosaic %I University of Manitoba, Mosaic %P 167 %@ 0027-1276 %G eng %M edsgcl.91711668 %0 Journal Article %J Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly %D 2002 %T Phaedo's Hair %A Zamir, Tzachi %X

This paper investigates the complicated status of critical thought and its suspension in Plato's 'Phaedo'. The philosophical "heart" of this dialogue lies not in the arguments over the immortality of the soul, but rather in the discrepancy between these and the dramatic occurrences and what this implies. Plato uses Socrates to both embody the ideal of critical reflection and philosophical searching, and at the same time to exhibit moments wherein reflection has to give way to suasion and allowing oneself to be "magically charmed". Withdrawing from a critical attitude is articulated both by Cebes and Siminias who are the sharpest and most critical of Socrates' interlocutors at the dialogue. But the same "misosophic" movement may also be perceived by Socrates. This makes for a fascinating metaphilosophical vision in which philosophy cannot be equated with argumentative, rigorous thought. Underlying this theme is another one, in which Socrates' general detachment from his own body and the body of others is momentarily replaced by a connection with a beautiful part of another's body: Phaedo's hair. Avoiding a critical attitude intertwines with this abrupt emergence of bodily contact, creating a retreat from a certain vision of philosophical life that we usually identify with Socrates.

%B Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly %V 51 %P 139-154 %8 04/01/ %@ 0021-3306 %G eng %9 Journal Article %0 Journal Article %J Erkenntnis %D 2001 %T One Consequence of Consequentialism: Morality and Overdetermination %A Zamir, Tzachi %X

I argue that some important preemptive causal chains cannot be accommodated by a consequentialist framework. While the literature of the last two decades has discussed the question of ethical deliberation in cases of irrelevant outcome, I construct a different case that directly concentrates on the 'comparative' assumption that underlies consequentialism. The flaw that would be exposed in case consequentialism cannot successfully deal with some types of overdetermination would, therefore, pertain not only to the 'implications' of consequentialist reasoning, but to the reasoning itself, when it is predicated (as it is) on comparison limited only to the relative value of states of affairs. Consequentialism would thus be exposed as relying on a notion of comparison that does not encompass some moral elements that we expect it to include.

%B Erkenntnis %V 55 %P 155-168 %8 01/01/ %@ 0165-0106 %G eng %9 Journal Article %0 Journal Article %J New Literary History %D 2000 %T Upon one bank and shoal of time: literature, nihilism, and moral philosophy %A Zamir, Tzachi %K Control (Psychology) -- Portrayals %K Ethics in literature -- Analysis %K Literature, Modern -- 17th century AD %K Macbeth (Play) -- Criticism and interpretation %K Nihilism -- Portrayals %K Shakespeare, William (English playwright) -- Criticism and interpretation %K United States %X

Issues discussed concern the portrayal of nihilism in William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth,' focusing on the existential and psychological aspects of character motivation. Topics include Macbeth's anxiety over loss of control, his detached emotional state, and the relationship between literature and moral philosophy.

%B New Literary History %I Johns Hopkins University Press %P 529 %@ 0028-6087 %G eng %9 Critical Essay %M edsgcl.66529689 %0 Generic %D 1999 %T The Face of Truth %A Zamir, Tzachi %K CRITICISM %K DIALOGUE %K PHILOSOPHY %K PLATO'S cave (Allegory) %K PLATO, 428-347 B.C. %K THEORY of knowledge %K TRUTH %X

I attempt to explain Plato's choice of dialogue through an analysis of what he regarded as the conditions of knowledge acquisition. I see the main contribution of the paper in exposing the way in which time and pain are, for Plato, conditions of knowledge acquisition. Plato endorsed the "learning through suffering," or pathei mathos, convention, central to Greek drama, and did so not through theory but through the praxis some of the dialogues employ. This addition of experiential components to the more cognitively oriented definitions of knowledge that Socrates uses complicates what these works may say about human knowledge. I analyze these tensions and the bearing they may have on the question of Plato's choice of dialogue, that is, on his rhetoric in practice. The requirements for actual persuasion, as Plato specifies them in the Seventh Letter,, are only partially met by the fictional scenes of argumentation and knowledge conveying that Plato presents. However, such scenes permit transcending some of the limitations of written, systematic, nonpersonal discourse. The presentation of such interactions to a real reader through dialogue turns into a mode of writing that is closer to meeting the demands of actual communication of knowledge - at least knowledge regarding what Plato envisaged as being the highest sort of epistemic communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]Copyright of Metaphilosophy is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

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Details of the characterization and motivation of Richard III in William Shakespeare's 'The Tragedy of King Richard the Third' can be used to show one way to explore specifics of connection between the rhetoric of literary texts and philosophical response patterns. Subtleties of Shakespearian rhetoric do not lend themselves to simple connection to a conceptual position. Shakespeare deals with willfully choosing villainy.

%B New Literary History %I Johns Hopkins University Press %P 501-520 %@ 0028-6087 %G eng %M edsgcl.21149726 %0 Journal Article %J Journal of Nietzsche Studies %D 1998 %T Seeing Truths %A Zamir, Tzachi %B Journal of Nietzsche Studies %I Friedrich Nietzsche Society of Great Britain %V 15 %P 80-87 %@ 0968800515384594 %G eng %9 research article