Michael Walzer (13 March 1935 - ) is a philosopher of society, politics, and ethics currently working as a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He has written on a wide range of topics, including just and unjust wars, nationalism, ethnicity, economic justice , criticism, radicalism, tolerance, and political obligation. Outside of his academic work he acts as editor-in-chief of Dissent, an American left-wing magazine and is a contributing editor to The New Republic. He is also on the Editorial Board of the academic journal Philosophy & Public Affairs. To date he has published over thirty five articles in scholarly journals. He is a member of several philosophical organizations including the American Philosophical Society.

Education

In 1956 Walzer graduated Summa cum laude from Brandeis University with a B.A. in History. He then studied at the University of Cambridge on a Fulbright Fellowship (1956-1957) and completed his doctoral work at Harvard, earning his Ph.D. in Political Science and History from the Kennedy School of Government in 1961.

Employment

Walzer was first employed as a professor in 1962 by Princeton University. He stayed there until 1966 when he moved to Harvard. He taught at Harvard until 1980 when he became a Permanent Faculty Member in the School of Social Sciences at the IAS.

Published Works

• The Revolution of the Saints: A Study in the Origins of Radical Politics (Harvard University Press, 1965) ASIN 0674767861
• Obligations: Essays on Disobedience, War and Citizenship (Harvard University Press, 1970) ISBN 0674630254
• Political Action (Quadrangle Books, 1971) ISBN 0812901738
• Regicide and Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 1974) ISBN 0231082592
• Just and Unjust Wars (Basic Books, 1977, second edition, 1992) ISBN 0465037054
• Radical Principles (Basic Books, 1977) ISBN 0465068243
• Spheres of Justice (Basic Books, 1983) ISBN 0465081894
• Exodus and Revolution (Basic Books, 1985) ISBN 0465021646
• Interpretation and Social Criticism (Harvard University Press, 1987) ISBN 0674459717
• The Company of Critics (Basic Books, 1988) ISBN 0465013317
• Civil Society and American Democracy (Rotbuch Verlag, 1992, in German) ISBN 3596130778
• What It Means to Be an American (Marsilio Publishers, 1992) ISBN 1568860250
• Thick and Thin: Moral Argument at Home and Abroad (Notre Dame Press, 1994) ISBN 0268018979
• Pluralism, Justice and Equality, with David Miller (Oxford University Press, 1995) ISBN 0198280084
• Toward a Global Civil Society (Berghahn Books, 1995) ISBN 1571810544
• On Toleration (Yale University Press, 1997) ISBN 0268018979
• Arguments from the Left (Atlas, 1997, in Swedish)
• Pluralism and Democracy (Editions Esprit, 1997, in French) ISBN 2909210197
• Reason, Politics, and Passion (Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1999, in German) ISBN 3596144396
• The Jewish Political Tradition, Vol. I Authority, co-edited, with Menachem Lorberbaum, Noam Zohar, and Yair Lorberbaum (Yale University Press, 2000) ISBN 0300094280
• Exilic Politics in the Hebrew Bible (Mohr Siebeck, 2001, in German) ISBN 3161475437
• War, Politics, and Morality (Ediciones Paidos, 2001, in Spanish) ISBN 8449311675
• Arguing About War (Yale University Press, 2004) ISBN 0300103654
• Politics and Passion: Toward A More Egalitarian Liberalism (Yale University Press, 2004) ISBN 030010328X

See Also

• Hugo Grotius
• Paul Ramsey
• Emer de Vattel
• Thomas Nagel

Sources & External links

• Walzer's biography at the Institute for Advanced Study
• Michael Walzer's Curriculum Vitae (PDF)