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