Michael Walzer





Michael Walzer

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born
March 03, 1935

gender
male

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influences
Isiah Berlin, Albert Camus


About this author

Michael Walzer is a Jewish American political philosopher and public intellectual. A professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, he is editor of the political-intellectual quarterly Dissent. He has written books and essays on a wide range of topics, including just and unjust wars, nationalism, ethnicity, economic justice, social criticism, radicalism, tolerance, and political obligation and is 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, and many scholarly journals


Average rating: 3.74 · 1,527 ratings · 114 reviews · 51 distinct works · Similar authors
Just And Unjust Wars: A Mor...
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 655 ratings — published 1976 — 11 editions
Spheres Of Justice: A Defen...
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 165 ratings — published 1985 — 4 editions
Arguing About War
3.24 of 5 stars 3.24 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions
On Toleration
3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1997 — 6 editions
Exodus and Revolution
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 41 ratings4 editions
Thick and Thin: Moral Argum...
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions
Revolution of the Saints: A...
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1982 — 3 editions
Politics and Passion: Towar...
3.26 of 5 stars 3.26 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions
The Company Of Critics: Soc...
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1988 — 5 editions
In God's Shadow: Politics i...
4.4 of 5 stars 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions
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