Michael Walzer
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American philosopher (born 1935)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 3 March 1935
- Works
- 72
Top works
- Naciones, identidad y conflicto
- בצלו של אלוהים
- Pluralism, Justice, and Equality
- Pluralism, justice, and equality
- The Revolution of the Saints
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 13
- Total plays
- 18
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Moderated estimation of fold change and dispersion for RNA-seq data with DESeq2
· 2014 · cited 85,569x
- Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles
· 2005 · cited 47,852x
- Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 43,942x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,678x
- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 39,021x
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Quotes
- “According to liberal political theory, as first formulated by John Locke, any individual citizen, oppressed by the rulers of the state, has a right to disobey their commands, break their laws, even rebel and seek to replace the rulers and change the laws.”
- “Disobedience, when it is not criminally but morally, religiously, or politically motivated, is almost always a collective act, and it is justified by the values of the collectivity and the mutual engagements of its members.”
- “The state is invisible...(it) needs to be symbolised before it can be loved.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Michael Laban Walzer , ( 1935-03-03 ) March 3, 1935 (age 91) , New York City, US
- Spouse
- Judith Borodovko Walzer ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1956 )
- Alma mater
- Brandeis University Harvard University
- Thesis
- The Revolution of the Saints
- Doctoral advisor
- Samuel Beer
- Influences
- Isaiah Berlin Charles Taylor Albert Camus Karl Marx John Rawls Niccolò Machiavelli
- Discipline
- Philosophy political studies
- Sub discipline
- Political philosophy ethics
- School or tradition
- Analytic philosophy communitarianism socialism
- Institutions
- Institute for Advanced Study
- Main interests
- Human rights political ethics just war theory liberalism value pluralism social criticism internationalism
- Notable works
- Just and Unjust Wars (1977) Spheres of Justice (1983) Interpretation and Social Criticism (1987)
- Notable ideas
- Dirty hands complex equality supreme emergency
- Influenced
- Michael Sandel Jean Bethke Elshtain Amy Gutmann Michael W. Doyle Ian Shapiro Axel Honneth Rainer Forst
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Wikidata facts
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- date of birth
- 1935-03-03
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Article
Michael Laban Walzer (born March 3, 1935) is an American political theorist and public intellectual. A professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey, he is editor emeritus of the left-wing magazine Dissent, which he has been affiliated with since his years as an undergraduate at Brandeis University, an advisory editor of the Jewish journal Fathom, and sits on the editorial board of the Jewish Review of Books.
He has written books and essays on a wide range of topics—many in political ethics—including just and unjust wars, nationalism, ethnicity, Zionism, antisemitism, economic justice, social criticism, radicalism, tolerance, and political obligation. He is also 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, Harpers, Quillette, and many philosophical and political science journals.