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Distinguishing State from Community: Michael Walzer’s Communitarian ‘View from the Cave’ | Embedded Cosmopolitanism: Duties to Strangers and Enemies in a World of 'Dislocated Communities' | British Academy Scholarship Online | Oxford Academic. Chapter.
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 just war.
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Jan 5, 2023 · Walzer’s other major work (Walzer 1983) is an argument for social democracy. Walzer calls his theory “complex equality” (3–30). Walzer calls his theory “complex equality” (3–30). He argues that theories of distributive justice should interpret a society’s social meanings so as to ensure that each good is distributed in ...
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His gifts to contemporary political philosophy are almost without comparison. And this summary has set aside the question of how Walzer’s political theory intersects with neighboring areas of his thought such as just war theory, Jewish political philosophy, foreign policy, social criticism, and meta-ethics.
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Walzer's body of published work includes more than 20 works written or edited by Walzer, among them Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations published in 1977 and reprinted in 1992; Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality (1983); The Jewish Political Tradition, edited by Walzer and two others (2000 ...
Mar 25, 2011 · The central value in Walzer's conception is collective self-determination, so I comment about its meaning and importance. Finally, I consider whether and how concerns about the moral standing of states bear on the kinds of cases of humanitarian intervention that the world community has actually faced since the book and article were written ...
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.
