Prof. Yosef Z. Liebersohn

Prof. Yosef Liebersohn specializes in ancient, Greek, and Roman philosophy. He is a lecturer at the Interdisciplinary Program in Philosophy and Jewish Thought at Shalem College, and a full professor in the Department of General History at Bar-Ilan University, where he was also awarded the ‘Outstanding Lecturer’ award for 2012.

Prof. Liebersohn’s research deals with the dialogues of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Seneca, and the Epicureans. He is the author of the books The Dispute Concerning Rhetoric in Hellenistic Thought and Who is Afraid of the Rhetor: An Analysis and Exegesis of Socrates and Gorgias’ Conversation in Plato’s Gorgias, as well as the first annotated translation into Hebrew of Epicurus’ Elementary Sayings, and of other articles in these and related fields.