Avishai Margalit is the Schulman Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and author of Idolatry and The Decent Society, both from Harvard University Press. He writes regularly for the New York Review of Books.
"[A] thought-provoking book... For Margalit... the paradigm is Jewish memories of the Holocaust, not Muslim memories of humiliation. Still, his sensitive meditations show how these two strains of hurt might be overcome... Margalit is an astonishingly humane thinker. His philosophy is always tied to making sense of us humans in all our complexity. And yet he is committed to making sense of us in ways that will make us better." - Jonathan Lear, New York Times Book Review; "The richness of Margalit's approach lies in its avidity, in the author's respect for every facet of existence; he can draw, in just a few paragraphs, examples from ordinary life and from momentous events." - Lee Siegel, Los Angeles Times Book Review"
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