Michael Walzer

Michael Walzer
Michael Walzer
	Walzer in 2002
Born	Michael Laban Walzer; March 3, 1935; New York City, New York, US
Spouse	Judith Borodovko Walzer (m. 1956)
Academic background
Alma mater	Brandeis University (BA); University of Cambridge; Harvard University (PhD);
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;
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 (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 Dissent, an intellectual magazine that he has been affiliated with since his years as an undergraduate at Brandeis University. He has written books and essays on a wide range of topics—many in political ethics—including just and unjust wars, nationalism, ethnicity, Zionism, 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, and many philosophical and political science journals.

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