Oded Na’aman received his PhD in Philosophy from Harvard University. His dissertation is about the rationality of attachment. It focuses on the rationality of loving particular individuals as such and valuing certain projects, activities, communities, traditions, and ideals. He also writes about being attached to unjust political institutions, for instance, by devoting oneself to making them more just. Outside academia, Oded has published articles and essays about the moral failure inherent in military rule, about the possibility of and justification for self-sacrifice, as well as about conviction and the deceptive allure of war. Oded is also a long time member of Breaking the Silence, a group of Israeli veterans that collects testimonies of Israeli soldiers who served in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. He co-edited Our Harsh Logic: Israeli Soldiers’ Testimonies from the Occupied Territories, 2000-2010 (Metropolitan Press, 2012).
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