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Michael Laban Walzer [a] (born March 3, 1935) is an American political theorist and public intellectual. A professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey, he is editor emeritus of Dissent, an intellectual magazine that he has been affiliated with since his years as an undergraduate at Brandeis University.
Website. Individual Website. One of America’s foremost political thinkers, Michael Walzer has written about a wide variety of topics in political theory and moral philosophy, including political obligation, just and unjust war, nationalism and ethnicity, economic justice, and the welfare state.
Feb 4, 2023 · THE STRUGGLE FOR A DECENT POLITICS: On “Liberal” as an Adjective, by Michael Walzer. We seem unable to live without the word “liberalism,” but can’t agree on what it means. Does it describe an...
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Feb 6, 2019 · Almost immediately upon its 1977 publication, Michael Walzer’s Just and Unjust Wars became the most influential modern work on the laws of war. Though written by an avowed anti-war activist who opposed Vietnam, the work won popularity and praise because it rejected both amoral realism and pacifism and sought to resuscitate the tradition of ...
Princeton, NJ 08540. Email: walzer@ias.edu. Professor Emeritus of Social Science. As a professor, author, editor, and lecturer, Michael Walzer has addressed a wide variety of topics in political theory and moral philosophy: political obligation, just and unjust war, nationalism and ethnicity, economic justice and the welfare state.
Michael Walzer is a leading American political theorist and a professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. He is the author of several books, including...
Dec 10, 2015 · Michael Walzer is widely regarded as one of America’s foremost political theorists and public intellectuals. His work has spanned many of the most important topics in political thought: theories of just war, terrorism, toleration, distributive justice, democracy, multiculturalism, the rules of international society, as well as methodological ...