Raphaël Zagury-Orly (born 1 November 1967) is a French-Israeli philosopher. His work primarily focuses on German idealism, phenomenology, contemporary French philosophy, and Jewish Thought in the line of Derrida deconstruction and ethical Lévinas thought.
Education and career He studied at the University of Paris IV from 1997 until 2002, when he obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy and Metaphysics. He defended his thesis under the direction of Alain Renaut.
He is a visiting professor at l’Institut Catholique de Paris since 2019; associate member of the École des Hautes Études En Sciences Sociales, where his work focuses on the theory of contemporary art; and program director of the Collège International de Philosophie.
Since 2015, is a founding member (along with Charlotte Casiraghi, Robert Maggiori, and Joseph Cohen) at Les Rencontres Philosophiques de Monaco (PhiloMonaco).
Between 2003 and 2014, he was a professor of philosophy at the Bezalel Academy of Fine Arts and Design as well as the director of its MFA program.
He held a research fellowship at the Asia and Europe in a Global Context Institute at the University of Heidelberg.
He was a visiting professor at the University of Rome at Sapienza from 2015 to 2016, at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design from 2014 to 2015, and at École Doctorale de Sciences Po from 2016-2019.
"Since 2004, he is Scientific Editor at the Resling Publishing House in Tel-Aviv, where he has supervised numerous Hebrew translations of Derrida, Deleuze, Bataille, Lyotard and Anders."
He is also the official curator for the Night of Philosophy in Tel Aviv since 2015. The Night of Philosophy is part of the local French Institute and works with the Arts program. Israeli and French intellectuals, totaling about one hundred people, meet to discuss philosophical topics.
Much of his work is collaborative, editorial, and translating works from German and French into Hebrew. His translations include works by Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Georges Bataille, Jean-François Lyotard, Günther Anders, Walter Benjamin, and Georges Didi-Huberman.
Bibliography
Books edited With Isabelle Alfandary and Sandra Laugier, Où va la philosophie française ?, Paris: Librairie philosophique J. Vrin / Les Rencontres Philosophiques de Monaco, 2024. With Alain Fleischer, L'Humain qui vient, Paris: Éditions Hermann, 2024. . Preface co-written by Zagury-Orly and Fleischer Chapter 18: "L'humain qui vient – sans télos", pp. 173–183, written by Zagury-Orly. With Orietta Ombrosi, Derrida-Levinas: An Alliance Awaiting the Political, Milan: , 2018. With Joseph Cohen, Judéités: Questions pour Jacques Derrida, Paris: Éditions Galilée, 2003. . English translation: Judeities: Questions for Jacques Derrida, edited by Bettina Bergo, Joseph Cohen, and Raphaël Zagury-Orly; translated by Bergo and Michael B. Smith, New York: Fordham University Press, 2007. Chapter titled, "A Monster of Faithfulness," written by Cohen and Zagury-Orly
Chapters in books Oct. 7: À l'ombre de l'art / In the Shadow of Art. Ed. Delphine Horvilleur. Paris: Éditions Hermann, 2024. . With Joseph Cohen, To Live and Die in History, in After Life, ed. Rona Cohen & Ruth Ronen. Routledge, 2023. . Published as a standalone book by , 2024. . With Joseph Cohen, "Anti-Judaism and Anti-Semitism in European Philosophy", in The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Europe, Routledge, 2021, p. 218. .
Books authored and co-authored Questionner encore, Paris: Éditions Galilée, 2011, 143 pp. . Le Dernier des sionistes, Paris: Les Liens qui Libèrent, 2021, 144 pp. . With Joseph Cohen, L'Adversaire privilégié. Heidegger, les juifs et nous, Paris: Éditions Galilée, 2021.
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External links Zagury-Orly, Raphaël. "Losing your voice." Tenoua. 25 October 2023. Raphael Zagury-Orly Interview | Alexandre Gilbert #345.1 Interview at the Times of Israel in September 2026 Raphael Zagury-Orly Interview | Alexandre Gilbert #252