Michael Walzer

1935 -

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country of citizenship: United States of America

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: University of Cambridge, Brandeis University, Harvard University

occupation: philosopher, political scientist, university teacher, sociologist, writer, politician

award received: Guggenheim Fellowship, Fulbright Scholarship, Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize

influenced by: Albert Camus, Charles Taylor, Karl Marx, Isaiah Berlin, John Rawls, Niccolò Machiavelli

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Michael Laban Walzer (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 sits on 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. He is also 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. Source: Wikipedia (en)