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Michael Walzer

Born

in New York, NY, The United States

March 03, 1935

Website

https://www.ias.edu/scholars/walzer

Genre

Philosophy, Politics

Influences

Isiah Berlin, Albert Camus

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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

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	Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations 3.86 avg rating — 2,891 ratings — published 1977 — 61 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality 3.80 avg rating — 714 ratings — published 1983	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Exodus and Revolution 3.93 avg rating — 200 ratings — published 1985 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Toleration (Castle Lecture Series) 3.45 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 1997 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arguing About War 3.41 avg rating — 165 ratings — published 2004 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Foreign Policy for the Left 3.72 avg rating — 95 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Paradox of Liberation: Secular Revolutions and Religious Counterrevolutions 3.57 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thick and Thin: Moral Argument at Home and Abroad 3.72 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 1994 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Struggle for a Decent Politics: On "Liberal" as an Adjective 3.79 avg rating — 84 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In God's Shadow: Politics in the Hebrew Bible 3.97 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2001 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Jewish Political Tradition (3 books)
by

Michael Walzer (Editor),

Menachem Lorberbaum (Editor),

Noam J. Zohar (Editor),

Madeline Kochen (Editor)

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“First oppression is made into an excuse for terrorism, and then terrorism is made into an excuse for oppression.”
― Michael Walzer

tags: a-world-without-islam, oppression, terrorism

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“We are not usually philosophical in moments of crisis; most often, there is no time.”
― Michael Walzer

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“In his reflections on rebellion, Albert Camus argues that one cannot kill unless one is prepared to die.11 But that argument does not seem to apply to soldiers in battle, where the whole point is to kill while avoiding getting killed. And yet there is a wider sense in which Camus is right. Just”
― Michael Walzer, Arguing About War

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