Research Interests:

Continental philosophy; phenomenology and existentialism; Hermeneutics; the relationship between religion and morality; political thought; Contemporary Jewish philosophy; Philosophy of Halacha; Critical theory.

Prof. Avi Sagi is academic director of the Military Ethics Research Team and a Senior Research Fellow of the Kogod Research Center at the Shalom Hartman Institute. He has a doctorate in philosophy from Bar-Ilan University where he serves as a professor.

Prof. Sagi is the founding director of Bar-Ilan University’s Program for Hermeneutic and Cultural Studies and a member of the steering committee for the preparation of the Israel Defense Forces code of ethics.

He is the editor of two book series and an academic journal. Prof. Sagi has authored and edited more than 35 books and published more than 200 articles. His most recent book in English is To Be a Jew, published by Continuum Press as part of the Institute’s Kogod Library of Judaic Studies.