Michael Walzer is widely regarded as one of the world's leading political theorists. In a career spanning more than fifty years, he has wrestled with some of the most crucial political ideas and questions of the day, developing original conceptions of democracy, social justice, liberalism, civil soc[...]
Maintaining that the trial and public execution of Louis XVI was an absolutely essential part of the French Revolution, Walzer discusses two types of regicide: the first, committed by would-be kings or their agents, left the monarchy's mystique and divine right intact, while the second was a revolut[...]
Revising and extending the arguments he put forth in "Spheres of Justice", the author frames his ideas about justice, social criticism, and national identity in light of the new political world that has arisen in the past decade.[...]
What kinds of political arrangements enable people from different national, racial, religious, or ethnic groups to live together in peace? In this book one of the most influential political theorists of our time discusses the politics of toleration. Michael Walzer examines five "regimes of toleratio[...]
Liberalism is egalitarian in principle, but why doesn't it do more to promote equality in practice? In this book, the distinguished political philosopher Michael Walzer offers a critique of liberal theory and demonstrates that crucial realities have been submerged in the evolution of contemporary li[...]
Michael Walzer is one of the world's most eminent philosophers on the subject of war and ethics. Now, for the first time since his classic "Just and Unjust Wars" was published almost three decades ago, this volume brings together his most provocative arguments about contemporary military conflicts a[...]
Distinguished political philosopher Michael Walzer offers a provocative reappraisal of the core tenets of liberalism. Ranging over contested issues including multiculturalism, pluralism, difference, civil society, and racial and gender justice, he suggest ways in which liberal theory might be revise[...]
Many of the successful campaigns for national liberation in the years following World War II were initially based on democratic and secular ideals. Once established, however, the newly independent nations had to deal with entirely unexpected religious fierceness. Michael Walzer, one of America's for[...]
This is a classic treatise on the ethics of war - now with a new preface addressing the war in Iraq. This classic work examines the issues surrounding military theory, war crimes and the spoils of war from the Athenian attack on Melos to the My Lai massacre. Subsequent editions have commented on mor[...]
Explains how diverse societies distribute such entities as education, citizenship, work, leisure time, honors, and love, as well as wealth and power, and argues that a just distribution necessitates an open egalitarianism[...]
The Company of Critics provides a fascinating survey of the terrain of social criticism in the last century. Organizing the book as a series of eleven intellectual biographies, Michael Walzer tells not just the dramatic story of the cultural and political radical but also the more personal story of [...]
In this book Michael Walzer demystifies the activity of the social critic, providing a philosophical framework for understanding social criticism as social practice.[...]
Argument från vänster är en samling texter av Michael Walzer från slutet av 80-talet och framåt. Texterna fångar grundtemat i hans författarskap. De handlar om demokrati, jämlikhet och pluralism i ett samhälle genomkorsat av skillnader i kön och kulturell bakgrund. Walzer formar en kr[...]
Kan ett månkulturellt samhälle fungera? Och hur skapar man ett system som befrämjar dem tolerans mellan etniska, kulturella och religiösa grupper, som är nödvändig för att hålla ett sådant samhälle samman? Dessa frågor står i centrum i Michael Walzers nya essä. En tänkvärd, reso[...]