Michael Walzer

Michael Walzer
Walzer in 2002
Born	Michael Laban Walzer (1935-03-03) March 3, 1935 (age 89) New York City, New York, US
Spouse	Judith Borodovko Walzer ​ ​ (m. 1956)​
Academic background
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
Academic work
Discipline	Philosophy political studies
Sub-discipline	Political philosophy ethics
School or tradition	Analytic philosophy communitarianism socialism[1]
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
Influenced	Michael Sandel Jean Bethke Elshtain Amy Gutmann Michael W. Doyle Ian Shapiro Axel Honneth Rainer Forst

Michael Laban Walzer^[a] (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.^[3][4]

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