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Aug 2, 2021 · With this in mind, Michael Walzer brilliantly paraphrased Trotsky’s aphorism about the dialectic: ‘You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.’ In 1985 Gregg Herken’s “Counsels of War” contained the following passage: [10] 1985, Counsels of War by Gregg Herken, Prologue: Operation Eggnog, Quote Page xv, Alfred A. Knopf, New York.
Apr 8, 2024 · A week after Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, Michael Walzer told The Free Press that Israel’s war against Gaza was just, but he warned against the needless killing of noncombatants. “We do know what ought not to be done, and we just hope it is not done,” he said at the time. Yesterday, I called Walzer, the author of Just and Unjust ...
Michael Laban Walzer [a] (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 the left-wing magazine Dissent, which he has been affiliated with since his years as an undergraduate at Brandeis University, an advisory editor of the Jewish journal Fathom, and ...
Oct 17, 2023 · 1 Michael Walzer’s ‘Political Action: The Problem of Dirty Hands’. Over the last 50 years anyone writing on the problem of dirty hands, be they supporters or critics, has needed to engage with the core claims made by Walzer in his ground-breaking article ‘Political Action: The Problem of Dirty Hands’.
This chapter discusses communitarian political thought and the work of Michael Walzer. It explores the normative significance of distinguishing the idea of the morally constitutive community from the state. The chapter also attempts to draw attention to a much broader range of Walzer’s writings than is generally acknowledged within IR.
Apr 1, 2013 · Abstract. For Michael Walzer, arguing about war is political rather than philosophical, a matter of persuasion rather than proof. His discussion of humanitarian intervention since the publication of Just and Unjust Wars tracks political events and debates, including the transformation of a debate focused on the right to intervene into one about situations, like those in Rwanda and Libya, in ...
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This article presents a reconstruction of Michael Walzer's pluralist theory in Spheres of Justice.It starts by noting that Walzer's main thesis (justice resides in autonomous spheres of social goods, according to principles reflecting each good's social meaning) is too restrictive to clarify his own concern with ‘complex equality’.
