Michael Walzer

Michael Walzer, a leading American political theorist, has
been a professor of Social Science at the Institute for
Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, since 1980. Walzer
has written about a wide variety of topics in political
theory and moral philosophy: political obligation, just and
unjust war, nationalism and ethnicity, economic justice and
the welfare state. He has played a part in the revival of a
practical, issue-focused ethics and in the development of a
pluralist approach to political and moral life. He is
currently working on the toleration and accommodation
of "difference" in all its forms and also on a
(collaborative) project focused on the history of Jewish
political thought.

Walzer received his B.A. from Brandeis University in 1956
and attended Cambridge University on a Fulbright Fellowship
from 1956 to 1957. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard
University in 1961. Professor Walzer was Professor of
Government at Harvard University from 1966-80 and an
assistant professor of Politics at Princeton University
from 1962-66. He has served as a member of the Board of
Governors of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since 1974.
He has been co-editor of DISSENT since 1976 and a
contributing editor of THE NEW REPUBLIC since 1977.

Among Walzer's books are: ON TOLERATION (1997); WHAT IT
MEANS TO BE AN AMERICAN (1993); THE COMPANY OF CRITICS
(1988); EXODUS AND REVOLUTION (1985); SPHERES OF JUSTICE: A
DEFENSE OF PLURALISM AND EQUALITY (1983); THE POLITICS OF
ETHNICITY (1982); RADICAL PRINCIPLES: REFLECTIONS OF AN
UNRECONSTRUCTED DEMOCRAT (1980); JUST AND UNJUST WARS: A
MORAL ARGUMENT WITH HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATIONS (1977);
OBLIGATIONS: ESSAYS ON DISOBEDIENCE, WAR AND CITIZENSHIP
(1970); THE REVOLUTION OF THE SAINTS; A STUDY OF THE
ORIGINS OF RADICAL POLITICS (1965).