books by Michael Walzer

books by Michael Walzer

books:

Michael Walzer

On Toleration (Castle Lectures Series)

Michael Walzer

Yale University Press, 1999

A good description of toleration
This book's strength lies in its many examples and systematic structure. The topic is engaging, and it will keep you reading. The fact that it was begotten out of a lecture series helps to keep it brief and not overly wordy. Worth the read if you are interested in ...

The Revolution of the Saints: A Study in the Origins of Radical Politics
Michael Walzer

Harvard University Press, 1982

Arguing About War (Yale Nota Bene)

Michael Walzer

Yale University Press, 2006

THE BEST THE LEFT HAS
A funny thing happened to Michael Walzer on his way to opposing the Vietnam War. Recognizing the hollowness of the arguments being made by the post-modern Left he sought serious moral ground and found it in traditional Just War Theory. But morality is a tricky thing, ...

Thinking Politically: Essays in Political Theory

Michael Walzer

Yale University Press, 2007

Amazon has it backwards: Walzer wrote the essays; Miller selected them.
Having just bought Thinking Politically, I can't say yet whether it lives up to my high expectations. My reason for writing is that Amazon errs in listing David Miller as an author or co-author. Thinking Politically is a collection of essays by Michael Walzer, the best ...

Just And Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations

Michael Walzer

Basic Books, 2006

All Is Not Fair in Love and War
Walzer's historical approach to examining just war theory is, I think, the most useful way to understand morality in war. That is so because empirical facts back up all the philosophical evaluations. Walzer describes experience and draws conclusions here; he is laying ...

Exodus And Revolution

Michael Walzer

Basic Books, 1986

Covenant Theology = Social Contract Theory?
Walzer is a Princeton Professor who writes in this book that Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Rousseau have their precursors in the Torah's Exodus narrative. Walzer is not interested in the implications of Biblical Higher Criticism, nor is he interested in theology per ...

Interpretation and Social Criticism (Tanner Lectures on Human Values)
Michael Walzer

Harvard University Press, 1987

What do social critics do? I How do they go about doing it? Where do their principles come from? How do critics establish their distance from the people and institutions they criticize? Michael Walzer addresses these problems in succinct and engaging fashion, providing a philosophical framework for understanding social criticism as a ...

Thick and Thin: Moral Argument at Home and Abroad (FRANK COVEY LOYOLA L)

Michael Walzer

University of Notre Dame Press, 2006

Michael Walzer on Thick and Thin
It has become widely popular to draw connections and similarities between the different people in our contemporary world. This might be done in terms of natural or universal human rights or in other ways, which aim to emphasise that we are all part of a common humanity ...

Multiculturalism: Examining the politics of recognition

Charles Taylor

Princeton University Press, 1994

A timely debate, with an emphasis on the philosophical.
One web page which I recently encountered urged the USA to adopt an official policy of multiculturalism, and thereby become the first great nation to make this postmodern leap; ahead of the U.K., and all of the other states which have considered such a move. Yet ...

Spheres Of Justice: A Defense Of Pluralism And Equality

Michael Walzer

Basic Books, 1984

Walzer makes equality make sense
Spheres of Justice was assigned to me but, years later and the class notes long lost, it has become a loyal, dog-eared partner in my life. Walzer's framework provides a powerful tool for non-philosophers to understand, and then speak-up directly and intelligently for ...

Dissent: In Search of New York (Special Issue) (Fall 1987)
Marshall Berman, Carlin Meyer, ...

Foundation for the Study of Independent Ideas, Inc, 1987

Essays, reportage, polemics and reminiscences, photography and a round-table on New York today (1987). Articles include: Koch and Social Retreat; Stumbling Toward Tomorrow; Ruins and Reforms; The New Immigrants to New York; New York vs. American Myths; Black Factions and Feuds; Good Schools? Possible, but...; The Downtown Personality; Rappin', ...

At War
Eudald Carbonell, Manuel Delgado, ...

Actar/Centre de Cultura Contempor nea de Barcelona, 2005

Ambitious in both scope and content, At War seeks to identify both the changes in the evolution of warfare from the beginning of the 20th century until today, and to show the imagery and thus society's mental and cultural constructs surrounding the issue. But this book on war approaches the age-old subject from a new perspective--the viewer isn't ...

Obligations: Essays on Disobedience, War, and Citizenship
Michael Walzer

Harvard University Press, 1970

In this collection of essays, Michael Walzer discusses how obligations are incurred, sustained, and (sometimes) abandoned by citizens of the modern state and members of political parties and movements as they respond to and participate in the most crucial and controversial aspects of citizenship: resistance, dissent, civil disobedience, war, ...

The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin

New York Review of Books, 2001

Mark Lilla and Ronald Dworkin together???
Can't wait to see this one. Lilla and Dworkin is like a collaboration between Ken Vandermark and Wynton Marsalis.

Law, Politics, and Morality in Judaism (Ethikon Series in Comparative Ethics)

Princeton University Press, 2006

Jewish legal and political thought developed in conditions of exile, where Jews had neither a state of their own nor citizenship in any other. What use, then, can this body of thought be today to Jews living in Israel or as emancipated citizens in secular democratic states? Can a culture of exile be adapted to help Jews find ways of being at home ...