Author: Avishai Margalit
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: memory, ethics
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2004-03-15
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0674013786
ISBN-13: 9780674013780

Much of the intense current interest in collective memory concerns the politics of memory. In a book that asks, "Is there an ethics of memory?" Avishai Margalit addresses a separate, perhaps more pressing, set of concerns. The idea he pursues is that the past, connecting people to each other, makes possible the kinds of "thick" relations we can call truly ethical. Thick relations, he argues, are those that we have with family and friends, lovers and neighbors, our tribe and our nation--and they are all dependent on shared memories. But we also have "thin" relations with total strangers,

Author: Avishai Margalit
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: society, decent
Number of Pages: 318
Published: 1996-04-01
List price: $55.50
ISBN-10: 0674194365
ISBN-13: 9780674194366

Avishai Margalit builds his social philosophy on this foundation: a decent society, or a civilized society, is one whose institutions do not humiliate the people under their authority, and whose citizens do not humiliate one another. What political philosophy needs urgently is a way that will permit us to live together without humiliation and with dignity. Most of the philosophical attention nowadays is drawn to the ideal of the just society based on the right balance between freedom and equality. The ideal of the just society is a sublime one but hard to realize. The decent society is an

Author: Avishai Margalit
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: memory, ethics
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2002-11-19
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 067400941X
ISBN-13: 9780674009417

Much of the intense current interest in collective memory concerns the politics of memory. In a book that asks, "Is there an ethics of memory?" Avishai Margalit addresses a separate, perhaps more pressing, set of concerns. The idea he pursues is that the past, connecting people to each other, makes possible the kinds of "thick" relations we can call truly ethical. Thick relations, he argues, are those that we have with family and friends, lovers and neighbors, our tribe and our nation--and they are all dependent on shared memories. But we also have "thin" relations with total stran

Author: Avishai Margalit
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: compromises, rotten, compromise
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2009-10-12
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0691133174
ISBN-13: 9780691133171

When is political compromise acceptable--and when is it fundamentally rotten, something we should never accept, come what may? What if a rotten compromise is politically necessary? Compromise is a great political virtue, especially for the sake of peace. But, as Avishai Margalit argues, there are moral limits to acceptable compromise even for peace. But just what are those limits? At what point does peace secured with compromise become unjust? Focusing attention on vitally important questions that have received surprisingly little attention, Margalit argues that we should be concerned not only

Authors:Moshe Halbertal, Avishai Margalit,
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: idolatry
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1998-08-19
List price: $31.00
ISBN-10: 0674443136
ISBN-13: 9780674443136

"You shall have no other gods besides Me." This injunction, handed down through Moses three thousand years ago, marks one of the most decisive shifts in Western culture: away from polytheism toward monotheism. Despite the momentous implications of such a turn, the role of idolatry in giving it direction and impetus is little understood. This book examines the meaning and nature of idolatry--and, in doing so, reveals much about the monotheistic tradition that defines itself against this sin. The authors consider Christianity and Islam, but focus primarily on Judaism. They explore competing

Authors:Avishai Dekel, Jeremiah P. Ostriker,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: universe, structure, formation
Number of Pages: 486
Published: 1999-04-28
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0521586321
ISBN-13: 9780521586320

Eleven leading authorities lend their expertise to this textbook. Their contributions form an introduction to a wide range of exciting topics in contemporary cosmology--from recent advances in redshift surveys, to the latest models in gravitational lensing and cosmological simulations. In the fast-moving field of structure formation, this book provides graduate students with a much-needed union of the latest theory and observation.

Author: Yair Margalit
Publisher: Wine Appreciation Guild
Keywords: small, wineries, handbook, operations, technology, winery
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1990-06
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0932664660
ISBN-13: 9780932664662