|
Yoram Hazony
Yoram Hazony is Founder and Provost of the Shalem Center, and a Senior Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Political Theory and Religion (PPR). His books include The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel’s Soul (Basic Books, 2000); and The Dawn: Political Teachings of the Book of Esther (Shalem Press, 2000). Hazony has written articles for The New York Times, The New Republic, Commentary, Azure, and Ha'aretz. His next books are The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and Hume and the Science of Mind.
Hazony is also director of Shalem's Jewish Philosophical Theology project, and is a member of the John Templeton Foundation Board of Advisors. He is author of a regular weblog on philosophy, Judaism, Israel and higher education called Jerusalem Letters.
Hazony received a B.A. from Princeton University in East Asian Studies in 1986 and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University in Political Theory in 1993. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife Yael Hazony and their children.
Personal Website: www.yoramhazony.org
Bibliography
The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture: An Introduction (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
L’Etat Juif: Sionisme, Post-Sionisme et Destins d’Israel, Claire Darmon, trans. (Paris: Lyber-Eclat, 2007). The Dawn: Political Teachings of the Book of Esther (Jerusalem: Shalem Press, 2000).
The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel's Soul (New York: Basic Books and The New Republic, 2000).
The Political Philosophy of Jeremiah: Theory, Elaboration, and Applications, (doctoral dissertation for Rutgers University, 1993)
Edited Books מיכאל אורן, דוד חזוני ויורם חזוני, עורכים, מאמרים חדשים על הציונות (ירושלים: הוצאת שלם, 2007).
David Hazony, Yoram Hazony and Michael Oren, eds., New Essays on Zionism (Jerusalem: Shalem Press, 2006).
Aaron Wildavsky, Moses as Political Leader, Yoram Hazony, edited with introduction (Jerusalem: Shalem Press, 2005).
Papers and Book Chapters
“Newtonian Explanatory Reduction and Hume's 'System of the Sciences,'” Newton and Empiricism, Zvi Biener and Eric Schliesser, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
“The Political Thought of the Biblical History, Genesis-Kings,” Judaic Sources and European Thought: Jerusalem’s Enduring Presence, Jonathan Jacobs, ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011)
“О национальном государстве: Страж еврейского народа," Еврейское государство в начале XXI века (2008)
“Judaism and the Modern State,” Azure 21 (Summer 2005)
Select Conference Presentations
“Newton and Hume Reconsidered,” conference on “Newton and Empiricism,” University of Pittsburgh, April 2010.
“Hume’s ‘System of the Sciences’ as a Challenge to Newtonian Science,” conference on “The Human Nature Tradition in Anglo-Scottish Philosophy: Its History and Future Prospects,” Shalem Center, Jerusalem, December 2009.
“Truth and Being in the Hebrew Bible,” conference on “The Bible and Philosophy: Rethinking the Fundamentals,” Shalem Center, Jerusalem, October 2009.
“Hume’s Program as an Alternative to Naturalism in Contemporary Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind,” 36th Annual Meeting of the Hume Society, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, August 2009.
“Jerusalem and Carthage,” conference on “Political Hebraism: Judaic Sources in Western Political Thought,” Princeton University, September 2008.
Research Papers
Yoram Hazony, Michael B. Oren and Daniel Polisar, “The Quiet Revolution in the Teaching of Zionist History: A Comparative Study of Education Ministry Textbooks on the 20th Century” (Jerusalem: Shalem Center, 2000)
Courses Taught
Metaphysics of the Bible On Human Nature |
