Books
- Idolatry (jointly with Moshe Halbertal), Harvard University Press, 1992.
- The Decent Society, Harvard University Press, 1996.
- Views in Review: Politics and Culture in the State of the Jews, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1998.
- The Ethics of Memory, Harvard University Press, 2002. (A partial German version of this book, Ethik der Erinnerung, was published by Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag in 2000.)
- Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies (with Ian Buruma), New York: The Penguin Press, 2004.
- On Compromise And Rotten Compromises, Princeton University Press, 2010
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