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(July 2008) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Michael Walzer Born Michael Laban Walzer (1935-03-03) March 3, 1935 (age 85) New York City, New York, US Alma mater Brandeis University University of Cambridge Harvard University Notable work Just and Unjust Wars (1977) Spheres of Justice (1983) Interpretation and Social Criticism (1987) Spouse(s) Judith Borodovko Walzer ​ ​ (m. 1956)​ Era Contemporary philosophy Region Western philosophy School Analytic communitarianism socialism[1] Main interests Political philosophy human rights ethics just war theory liberalism Value pluralism social criticism internationalism Notable ideas Dirty hands complex equality Influences Isaiah Berlin Charles Taylor Albert Camus Karl Marx Niccolò Machiavelli Influenced Michael J. Sandel Jean Bethke Elshtain Amy Gutmann Michael W. Doyle Part of the Politics series on Communitarianism Central concepts Civil society Political particularism Positive rights Social capital Value pluralism Important thinkers Benjamin Barber Gad Barzilai Robert N. Bellah Phillip Blond Amitai Etzioni William Galston Mark Kuczewski Alasdair MacIntyre Stephen Marglin José Pérez Adán Costanzo Preve Robert D. Putnam Joseph Raz Jean-Jacques Rousseau Michael J. Sandel Charles Taylor Michael Walzer Related topics Christian democracy Radical centrism Republicanism Social democracy Politics portal v t e Michael Laban Walzer (/ˈwɔːlzər/;[2] born 1935) is a prominent 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. He has written books and essays on a wide range of topics—many in political ethics—including just and unjust wars, nationalism, ethnicity, Zionism, economic justice, social criticism, radicalism, tolerance, and political obligation. He is also a contributing editor to The New Republic. To date, he has written 27 books and published over 300 articles, essays, and book reviews in Dissent, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harpers, and many philosophical and political science journals. Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Work 3 Employment 4 Awards and honors 5 Personal life 6 Books 7 See also 8 References 9 External links Early life and education[edit] Born to a Jewish family[3] on March 3, 1935, Walzer graduated summa cum laude from Brandeis University in 1956 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history. He then studied at the University of Cambridge on a Fulbright Fellowship (1956–1957) and completed his doctoral work at Harvard University, earning his Doctor of Philosophy degree in government under Samuel Beer in 1961. Work[edit] Michael Walzer is usually identified as one of the leading proponents of the communitarian position in political theory, along with Alasdair MacIntyre and Michael J. Sandel. Like Sandel and MacIntyre, Walzer is not completely comfortable with this label.[4] However, he has long argued that political theory must be grounded in the traditions and culture of particular societies, and has long opposed what he sees to be the excessive abstraction of political philosophy. His most important intellectual contributions include Just and Unjust Wars (1977), a revitalization of just war theory that insists on the importance of "ethics" in wartime while eschewing pacifism; the theory of "complex equality", which holds that the metric of just equality is not some single material or moral good, but rather that egalitarian justice demands that each good be distributed according to its social meaning, and that no good (like money or political power) be allowed to dominate or distort the distribution of goods in other spheres;[5] and an argument that justice is primarily a moral standard within particular nations and societies, not one that can be developed in a universalized abstraction. In On Toleration, he describes various examples of (and approaches to) toleration in various settings, including multinational empires such as Rome; nations in past and current-day international society; "consociations" such as Switzerland; nation-states such as France; and immigrant societies such as the United States. He concludes by describing a "post-modern" view, in which cultures within an immigrant nation have blended and inter-married to the extent that toleration becomes an intra-familial affair.[6] Employment[edit] Walzer was first employed in 1962 in the politics department at Princeton University. He stayed there until 1966, when he moved to the government department at Harvard. He taught at Harvard until 1980, when he became a permanent faculty member in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. In 1971, Walzer taught a semester-long course at Harvard with Robert Nozick called "Capitalism and Socialism". The course was a debate between the two philosophers: Nozick's side is delineated in Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974), and Walzer's side is expressed in his Spheres of Justice (1983), in which he argues for "complex equality".[7] Walzer is a member of the editorial board of the Jewish Review of Books and an Advisory Editor at Fathom. Awards and honors[edit] In April 2008, Walzer received the prestigious Spinoza Lens, a bi-annual prize for ethics in the Netherlands. He has also been honoured with an emeritus professorship at the prestigious Institute for Advanced Study. He was elected to a Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1971, and to a Corresponding Fellowship of the British Academy in 2016. Personal life[edit] Walzer is married to Judith Borodovko Walzer. They are parents of two daughters: Sarah Esther Walzer (born 1961) and Rebecca Leah Walzer (born 1966). His grandchildren are Joseph and Katya Barrett, and Jules and Stefan Walzer-Goldfeld. Walzer is the older brother of historian Judith Walzer Leavitt. Books[edit] The Revolution of the Saints: A Study in the Origins of Radical Politics (Harvard University Press, 1965) ISBN 0-674-76786-1 Obligations: Essays on Disobedience, War and Citizenship (Harvard University Press, 1970) ISBN 0-674-63025-4 Political Action (Quadrangle Books, 1971) ISBN 0-8129-0173-8 Regicide and Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 1974) ISBN 0-231-08259-2 Just and Unjust Wars (Basic Books, 1977; second edition, 1992; third edition, 2000, ISBN 0-465-03705-4; fourth edition, 2006, ISBN 0-465-03707-0); fifth edition, 2015. Radical Principles (Basic Books, 1977) ISBN 0-465-06824-3 Spheres of Justice (Basic Books, 1983) ISBN 0-465-08189-4 Exodus and Revolution (Basic Books, 1985) ISBN 0-465-02164-6 Interpretation and Social Criticism (Harvard University Press, 1987) ISBN 0-674-45971-7 The Company of Critics (Basic Books, 1988) ISBN 0-465-01331-7 Zivile Gesellschaft und amerikanische Demokratie (Rotbuch Verlag, 1992) ISBN 3-596-13077-8 (collection of essays in German collection; the title translates as "Civil Society and American Democracy") What It Means to Be an American (Marsilio Publishers, 1992) ISBN 1-56886-025-0 Thick and Thin: Moral Argument at Home and Abroad (Notre Dame Press, 1994) ISBN 0-268-01897-9 Pluralism, Justice and Equality, with David Miller (Oxford University Press, 1995) ISBN 0-19-828008-4 Toward a Global Civil Society (Berghahn Books, 1995) ISBN 1-57181-054-4 On Toleration (Yale University Press, 1997) ISBN 0-268-01897-9 Arguments from the Left (Atlas, 1997, in Swedish) Pluralism and Democracy (Editions Esprit, 1997, in French) ISBN 2-909210-19-7 Reason, Politics, and Passion (Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1999, in German) ISBN 3-596-14439-6 The Jewish Political Tradition, Vol. I: Authority. co-edited with Menachem Lorberbaum, Noam Zohar, and Yair Lorberbaum (Yale University Press, 2000) ISBN 0-300-09428-0 Exilic Politics in the Hebrew Bible (Mohr Siebeck, 2001, in German) ISBN 3-16-147543-7 War, Politics, and Morality (Ediciones Paidos (es), 2001, in Spanish) ISBN 84-493-1167-5 The Jewish Political Tradition, Vol. II: Membership. co-edited with Menachem Lorberbaum, Noam Zohar, and Yair Lorberbaum (Yale University Press, 2003) ISBN 978-0-300-09428-2 Arguing About War (Yale University Press, 2004) ISBN 0-300-10365-4 Politics and Passion: Toward A More Egalitarian Liberalism (Yale University Press, 2004) ISBN 0-300-10328-X Law, Politics, and Morality in Judaism. edited by Walzer (Princeton University Press, 2006) ISBN 0-691-12508-2 Thinking Politically (Yale University Press, 2007) ISBN 978-0-300-11816-2 In God's Shadow: Politics in the Hebrew Bible (Yale University Press, 2012) ISBN 978-0-300-18044-2 The Paradox of Liberation (Yale University Press, 2015) ISBN 978-0-300-18780-9 A Foreign Policy for the Left (Yale University Press, 2018) ISBN 978-0300223873 See also[edit] Hugo Grotius Emer de Vattel Thomas Nagel Richard Rorty John Rawls References[edit] ^ Howard, Michael W. (1986). "Walzer's Socialism". Social Theory and Practice. 12 (1): 103–113. doi:10.5840/soctheorpract198612117. JSTOR 23556625. ^ Michael Walzer: The Free Market and Morality on YouTube ^ Arkush, Allan (August 8, 2012). "Michael Walzer's Secular Jewish Thought". Journal of Modern Jewish Studies. 11 (2): 221–241. doi:10.1080/14725886.2012.684859. S2CID 144959296. ^ Communitarianism > Notes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) ^ Spheres of Justice (1983); see criticism, Young Kim, Justice as Right Actions: An Original Theory of Justice in Conversation with Major Contemporary Accounts (Lexington Books, 2015), ch. 11 ( ISBN 978-1-4985-1651-8) ^ Walzer, Michael (1997). On Toleration. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-07600-4. ^ Interview with E. J. Dionne External links[edit] Wikiquote has quotations related to: Michael Walzer Dissent Quarterly magazine of politics and culture edited by Michael Walzer Walzer's biography at the Institute for Advanced Study "Arguing about War" Review of Walzer's Arguing about War in n+1 magazine The Argument about Humanitarian Intervention By Michael Walzer Micha Odenheimer, A “Connected Critic”, Micha Odenheimer speaks with an individual who has carved out a space for himself as a left-wing supporter of Israel, Eretz Acheret Magazine Review of Thinking Politically, Barcelona Metropolis, 2010. A Conversation with Michael Walzer Video interview, 2012. Appearances on C-SPAN For an analysis of communitarianism see: Gad Barzilai, Communities and Law: Politics and Cultures of Legal Identities (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003) The Future of Liberal Zionism: An interview with Michael Walzer, 20 September 2012 The Jewish Political Tradition, 26 April 2013 Perry Anderson's House of Zion: A symposium - Fathom Journal Interview with Dr. Michael Walzer by Stephen McKiernan, Binghamton University Libraries Center for the Study of the 1960s, April 4, 2016 v t e Social and political philosophy Ancient philosophers Aristotle Chanakya Cicero Confucius Han Fei Lactantius Laozi Mencius Mozi Origen Plato Polybius Shang Socrates Sun Tzu Tertullian Thucydides Valluvar Xenophon Xunzi Medieval philosophers Alpharabius Augustine Averroes Baldus Bartolus Bruni Dante Gelasius al-Ghazali Giles Hostiensis Ibn Khaldun John of Paris John of Salisbury Latini Maimonides Marsilius Nizam al-Mulk Photios Thomas Aquinas Wang William of Ockham Early modern philosophers Beza Bodin Bossuet Botero Buchanan Calvin Cumberland Duplessis-Mornay Erasmus Filmer Grotius Guicciardini Harrington Hayashi Hobbes Hotman Huang Leibniz Locke Luther Machiavelli Malebranche Mariana Milton Montaigne More Müntzer Naudé Pufendorf Rohan Sansovino Sidney Spinoza Suárez 18th–19th-century philosophers Bakunin Bentham Bonald Bosanquet Burke Comte Constant Emerson Engels Fichte Fourier Franklin Godwin Hamann Hegel Herder Hume Jefferson Justi Kant political philosophy Kierkegaard Le Bon Le Play Madison Maistre Marx Mazzini Mill Montesquieu Möser Nietzsche Novalis Paine Renan Rousseau Royce Sade Schiller Smith Spencer Stirner Taine Thoreau Tocqueville Vico Vivekananda Voltaire 20th–21st-century philosophers Adorno Ambedkar Arendt Aurobindo Aron Azurmendi Badiou Baudrillard Bauman Benoist Berlin Bernstein Butler Camus Chomsky De Beauvoir Debord Du Bois Durkheim Dworkin Foucault Gandhi Gauthier Gehlen Gentile Gramsci Habermas Hayek Heidegger Irigaray Kautsky Kirk Kropotkin Laclau Lenin Luxemburg Mao Mansfield Marcuse Maritain Michels Mises Mou Mouffe Negri Niebuhr Nozick Nursî Oakeshott Ortega Pareto Pettit Plamenatz Polanyi Popper Qutb Radhakrishnan Rand Rawls Rothbard Russell Santayana Sartre Scanlon Schmitt Searle Shariati Simmel Simonović Skinner Sombart Sorel Spann Spirito Strauss Sun Taylor Walzer Weber Žižek Social theories Anarchism Authoritarianism Collectivism Communism Communitarianism Conflict theories Confucianism Consensus theory Conservatism Contractualism Cosmopolitanism Culturalism Fascism Feminist political theory Gandhism Individualism Islam Islamism Legalism Liberalism Libertarianism Mohism National liberalism Republicanism Social constructionism Social constructivism Social Darwinism Social determinism Socialism Utilitarianism Concepts Civil disobedience Democracy Four occupations Justice Law Mandate of Heaven Peace Property Revolution Rights Social contract Society War more... 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