Michael Walzer
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American philosopher (born 1935)
OverviewAI-generated
Michael Walzer is an author born on 3 March 1935. His published works include *Naciones, identidad y conflicto*, *בצלו של אלוהים*, *Pluralism, Justice, and Equality*, and *The Revolution of the Saints*. He has been recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.
Walzer has written 72 works according to Open Library records, while Crossref lists five works. One of his quotes states, "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
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Occupation
- politician
- Educated at
- Harvard University
- Employer
- Harvard University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral advisor
- Samuel Beer
- Image
- MichaelWalzer-USNA-Lecture.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1935-03-03
- member of
- American Philosophical Society
- influenced by
- Niccolò Machiavelli
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
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