Reading Walzer
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Reading Walzer is the first book to assess the full range of Walzer’s work. An outstanding team of international contributors consider the following topics in relation to Walzer’s work:
- the moral standing of nation states
- individual responsibility and laws governing the conduct of war
- debates over intervention and non-intervention
- human and minority rights
- moral and cultural pluralism
- equality
- justice
- Walzer’s radicalism and role as a critic.
All chapters have been specially commissioned for this collection, and Walzer’s responses to his critics makes Reading Walzer essential reading for students of political philosophy and political theory.
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Michael Walzer is Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA. He is an editor emeriti of the political-intellectual quarterly Dissent, and is 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, and many scholarly journals.
Yitzhak Benbaji teaches ethics, political philosophy and philosophy of law at the Tel Aviv University Law Faculty, Israel.
Naomi Sussmann is head of Citizenship and Community in Molad, The Centre for the renewal of Israeli Democracy, Jerusalem.
