Michael Walzer

Michael Walzer
Michael Walzer
	Walzer in 2002
Born	Michael Laban Walzer; March 3, 1935 (age 89); New York City, New York, U.S.
Spouse	Judith Borodovko (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;
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 (/ˈwɔːlzər/; born March 3, 1935) is an American political theorist and intellectual. He is a professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS). He is editor emeritus of the left-wing magazine Dissent.

Written works

He has written books and essays on a many topics in politics, such as about Zionism, antisemitism, economic justice, social justice and radicalism. He is also a contributing editor to The New Republic.

Waltzer 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.^[2]^[3]

Walzer was born to a Jewish family^[4] on March 3, 1935. He graduated from Brandeis University in 1956. He then studied at the University of Cambridge and at Harvard University.^[2]

In 1956, Walzer married Judith Borodovko. They have two daughters. Walzer is the older brother of historian Judith Walzer Leavitt.

↑ Howard, Michael W. (1986). "Walzer's Socialism". Social Theory and Practice. 12 (1): 103–113. doi:10.5840/soctheorpract198612117. JSTOR 23556625.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 "Michael Laban Walzer". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2021-11-29.
↑ "From the River to the Sea".
↑ Arkush, Allan (August 8, 2012). "Michael Walzer's Secular Jewish Thought". Journal of Modern Jewish Studies. 11 (2): 221–241. doi:10.1080/14725886.2012.684859. S2CID 144959296.

Dissent Quarterly magazine of politics and culture edited by Michael Walzer
Walzer's biography at the Institute for Advanced Study
"Arguing about War" Review of Walzer's Arguing about War in n+1 magazine
The Argument about Humanitarian Intervention By Michael Walzer
Micha Odenheimer, A “Connected Critic”, Micha Odenheimer speaks with an individual who has carved out a space for himself as a left-wing supporter of Israel, Eretz Acheret Magazine

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