Michael Laban Walzer, born 3 March 1935, is an American political theorist and public intellectual, professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, editor emeritus of the left-wing magazine Dissent, with which he has been affiliated since his undergraduate years at Brandeis University, an advisory editor of the Jewish journal Fathom, and a member of 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, 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, Harpers, Quillette and many philosophical and political science journals.
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Walzer's Just and Unjust Wars (1977) is the field's central modern text, reviving and reworking just war theory against a 20th-century background.
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Introduction
Born to a Jewish family on March 3, 1935, Walzer graduated summa cum laude from Brandeis University in 1956
Political theory
Walzer is usually identified as one of the leading proponents of the communitarian position in political theory
Introduction, contributions
His most important intellectual contributions include Just and Unjust Wars (1977), a revitalization of just war theory that insists on the importance of 'ethics' in wartime
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Michael Laban Walzer (born March 3, 1935) is an American political theorist and public intellectual.
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