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	Michael Walzer's Tortured Ethics
		Indeed, when Walzer asks "how does anyone fight an enemy like that?" he seems blind to the fact that it is just this exasperated question that is asked by the likes of Hamas as a prelude to justifying its own terroristic activities.
		Second, Walzer's belief that the Israeli government was committed to a "large withdrawal from the West Bank is a bald attempt to use ambiguous language to mask a meaningless statement.
		Walzer must know this, so by using such obfuscating language he is clearly trying to hide what he very well knows - that the so-called "end" of the occupation of Gaza in no measure meant that the West Bank, and therefore a viable Palestinian state, was going to become a reality in the foreseeable future.
	www.commondreams.org /views06/0726-33.htm (1577 words)

	Michael Walzer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Michael Walzer (3 March 1935 -) is a political theorist and writer on society, politics, and ethics currently working as a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
		Michael is the older brother of historian Judith Walzer Leavitt.
		Walzer is usually identified as one of the leading proponents of the "Communitarian" position in political theory, along with Alasdair MacIntyre and Michael Sandel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Walzer (605 words)

	FT March 2000: Michael Walzer: Just and Unjust Wars (1977) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Walzer develops the tradition of just war as a deontological tradition—that is, even the good guys are not allowed to do just anything that is necessary to win.
		Walzer interprets the dishonoring of Arthur Harris as such a reinstatement.
		When Walzer reaches for "dishonoring" as a way of reinstating the once overridden moral code, he gropes for something that is better called religious than moral.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft0003/articles/walzer.html (935 words)

	livro aberto: Michael Walzer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		So Michael Hart and Antonio Negri in their new book Multitude, which is the sequel to their famous Empire published just four years ago, claim that Just War theory comes from the age of the Crusades and the religious wars and carries the sensibility of that age into modern times.
		MICHAEL WALZER: I assume the intention is to have an effect on this country, I hope.
		MICHAEL WALZER: He is a politician in a difficult position, and I am entirely sympathetic.
	livroaberto.weblog.com.pt /arquivo/2004/11/michael_walzer.html (5629 words)

	The School of Social Science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Michael 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.
	www.sss.ias.edu /community/walzer.php (87 words)

	Amazon.ca: Interpretation and Social Criticism: Books: Michael Walzer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Walzer thereby challenges both Thomas Nagel (The View from Nowhere, LJ 2/1/86) and John Rawls (A Theory of Justice, 1971) who think sufficient objectivity would enable us to discover or invent adequate moral principles, arguing instead that the social critic is effective because he is committed and involved.
		Walzer maintains that social criticism is an ordinary activity--less the offspring of scientific knowledge than the "educated cousin of common complaint"-- and does not depend for its force or accuracy upon any sort of high theory.
		Walzer explains where critical principles come from, how much distance is "critical distance," and what the historical practice of criticism has actually been like in the work of social philosophers such as Marx, Gramsci, Koestler, Lenin, Habermas, and Rawls.
	amazon.ca /Interpretation-Social-Criticism-Michael-Walzer/dp/0674459717 (613 words)

	Can There Be A Decent Left? Michael Walzer’s Second Thoughts
		Michael Walzer puzzles at length over the failure of the left to understand the religious nature of the al-Qaeda enemy: "Whenever writers on the left say that the root cause of terror is global inequality or human poverty, the assertion is in fact a denial that religious motives really count.
		This question reveals a gap in Walzer’s perception of the left that has its roots in his own decency and in the fact that, after all is said and done, he is a moralist and reformer, not a revolutionary.
		This answers Walzer’s question as to how so-called "progressives" could be either so unwilling or so slow to distinguish or defend their own country — a tolerant, secular democracy -- in the face of an evil force and its terrorist attacks.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=1011 (1833 words)

	Michael Walzer Press Release
		Michael Walzer, political philosopher and professor at the Institute of Advanced Study, School of Social Science, will present a public lecture titled, "The Triumph of Just War Theory: Is Iraq a Just War?" at 4:30 p.m.
		Walzer's current research includes the toleration and accommodation of "difference" in all its forms, as well as a collaborative project focused on the history of Jewish political thought.
		Walzer's lecture is part of the School's speaker series leading up to the Princeton Colloquium on International Affairs.
	www.wws.princeton.edu /events/pressreleases/walzer.html (237 words)

	Big Ideas. Big Thinkers. Michael Walzer \| Thirteen/WNET
		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.
		Walzer received his B.A. from Brandeis University in 1956 and attended Cambridge University on a Fulbright Fellowship from 1956 to 1957.
		Professor Walzer was Professor of Government at Harvard University from 1966-80 and an assistant professor of Politics at Princeton University from 1962-66.
	www.thirteen.org /bigideas/walzer.html (252 words)

	Michael Walzer, '56: mining the power of thought
		Michael Walzer has been described as one of the foremost "thinkers" of our time.
		As a member of the institute's permanent faculty, 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.
		Walzer is a contributing editor to The New Republic and editor of Dissent.
	my.brandeis.edu /profiles/one-profile?profile_id=97 (385 words)

	Michael Walzer on War and Justice
		This is a book analyzing Michael Walzer's philosophical musings on the broad topics of just war theory and distributive justice.
		Walzer has written many books and articles on these themes, rising to become one of the foremost thinkers on such subjects in the late 20th century.
		"Michael Walzer on War and Justice" is not exactly grab-you-out-of-your-chair reading, but it is an interesting exploration of where Walzer fits in the broad philosophical picture.
	kimallen.sheepdogdesign.net /Reviews/walzer.html (745 words)

	MyDD :: Freedom from Fear: Michael Walzer on Our Ideology
		Walzer has a unique take on where we have been and where we are going--but his prescription in the final analysis is attractive in its simplicity.
		Walzer argues that we have experienced three "crossovers" in American politics in which political and intellectual traits formerly found on the left now find their home almost exclusively on the right and vice-versa.
		Walzer mentions in there that he does not believe the left has even begun to come to grips with the enormity of the failure of communism, and along the same lines, he seems to suggest that the end of the Cold War plays a part in the crumbling of our traditional ideological stances.
	www.mydd.com /story/2005/4/25/174252/041 (4808 words)

	On Toleration
		Michael Walzer shows how power, class, and gender interact with religion, race, and ethnicity in the different regimes and discusses how toleration works—and how it should work—in multicultural societies like the United States.
		Walzer identifies five historical models or regimes that encourage toleration and ultimately presents an analysis and defense of the approach that he believes works best for a multicultural US on the threshhold of the 21st century.
		"Michael Walzer's thoughts on toleration are sweeping and lofty, but—regrettably—he writes with a theoretician's myopia and a sad degree of historical naïveté.
	www.ou.edu /cas/psc/bookwalzer5.htm (978 words)

	Just War Theory [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		A different skeptical argument, one advanced by Michael Walzer, is that the invention of nuclear weapons alters war so much that our notions of morality—and hence just-war theories—become redundant.
		However, against Walzer, it can be reasonably argued that although such weapons change the nature of warfare they do not dissolve the need to consider their use within a moral framework.
		Michael Walzer, in his Just and Unjust Wars (1977) claims that the lack of identification does not give a government the right to kill indiscriminately—the onus is on the government to identify the combatants.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/j/justwar.htm (3893 words)

	Walzer,Michael Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Walzer examines five "regimes of toleration", from multinational empires to immigrant societies, and describes the strengths and weaknesses of each regime.144 pp.
		Michael Walzer is one of the world's most eminent philosophers on the subject of war and ethics.
		In this collection of essays, Michael Walzer discusses how obligations are incurred, sustained, and (sometimes) abandoned by citizens of the modern state and members of political parties and movements as they respond to and participate in the most crucial and controversial aspects of citizenship: resistance, dissent, civil disobedience, war, and...
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Walzer,Michael (995 words)

	History News Network
		Second, the claim that Hezbollah uses civilians as shields is not supported by the research of any independent human rights organizations (see http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3381 for Stephen Zunes' point by point rebuttal of most of the charges against Hezbollah and Hamas contained in last week's Congressional resolution in support of the Israeli invasion).
		It is hard to overstate the unconscious — one can imagine — chauvinism and racism underlying Walzer's remarks here, a foundation that has deep roots in the history of European and later American imperialism in the Middle East and elsewhere in the non-Western world.
		Walzer must know this, so by using such obfuscating language he is clearly trying to hide what he very well knows — that the so-called “end” of the occupation of Gaza in no measure meant that the West Bank, and therefore a viable Palestinian state, was going to become a reality in the foreseeable future.
	hnn.us /blogs/entries/28623.html (1490 words)

	Michael Walzer on Howard Zinn
		Turning to Walzer's attack on Zinn, the first thing you will notice by reading between the lines is its affinity with Gitlin's piece.
		It is particularly galling to see Walzer conclude his hatchet-job with a recommendation of CLR James (among others)as a positive alternative to Zinn.
		If CLR James knew that somebody as oily as Walzer was praising his work, I am sure that he would begin to spin in his grave at such a high rate that a dynamo attached to his corpse could satisfy the electrical needs of a medium sized American city for the next 5 years.
	www.columbia.edu /~lnp3/mydocs/fascism_and_war/Walzer.htm (1285 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Radical Principles, by Michael Walzer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		...As Walzer observes, Marx left out the vital and all-consuming political activities the citizen would be saddled with: the morning meeting of the Council on Animal Life, the special session after lunch of the Fisherman's Council...
		...Walzer's argument for affirmative action and the radical redistribution of income is that all social rewards must be for intrinsic reasons, so that money will not be allowed to buy learning, love, political power, or the like...
		...Walzer coins the romantic concept of "civism," a quality of virtuous public life which owes nearly everything to Rousseau's attempt to create a new secular religion of political life...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V71I2P80-1.htm (1768 words)

	Amazon.com: Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations (Basic Books Classics): Books: Michael ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Walzer describes experience and draws conslusions here; he is laying a philosophical foundation and implying, if not prescribing, moral norms from which the rules have been extracted.
		Walzer was vocal about the run-up to war in 2003, and those who read his book would do well to find his comments about the Iraq invasion; they are edifying in terms of understanding the overall argument and where we are going in this role as the world's police force.
		Walzer first wrote this book in the 70's in response to the Vietnam War and it was last revised in 2000.
	www.amazon.com /Just-Unjust-Wars-Historical-Illustrations/dp/0465037054 (2522 words)

	Harvard University Press: Obligations : Essays on Disobedience, War, and Citizenship by Michael Walzer
		In this collection of essays, Michael Walzer discusses how obligations are incurred, sustained, and (sometimes) abandoned by citizens of the modern state and members of political parties and movements as they respond to and participate in the most crucial and controversial aspects of citizenship: resistance, dissent, civil disobedience, war, and revolution.
		Walzer approaches these issues with insight and historical perspective, exhibiting an extraordinary understanding for rebels, radicals, and rational revolutionaries.
		Michael Walzer is Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/WALOBL.html?show=catalogcopy (150 words)

	Big Ideas. Printable Page \| Thirteen/WNET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		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.
		Michael Walzer, SPHERES OF JUSTICE: A DEFENCE OF PLURALISM AND EQUALITY.
		Michael Walzer, ON TOLERATION (CASTLE LECTURES IN ETHICS, POLITICS AND ECONOMICS).
	www.thirteen.org /bigideas/printable/walzer.html (258 words)

	BrothersJudd.com - Review of Michael Walzer's Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Walzer is apparently part of a broader movement that includes even those in the Catholic Church to fundamentally alter the just war tradition in a way that dramatically disfigures it.
		Walzer's legalist paradigm replaces moral concerns with personal security concerns, replaces the effort to create a just world with an effort to create a secure society, even though that means trading the freedom of the citizens of other nations for security for yourself and your countrymen.
		Walzer does not write from a Christian perspective, so he need not be held to the standards of Christianity, but the Church has no excuse for adopting this position.
	www.brothersjudd.com /index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/1249 (3579 words)

	Michael Walzer: a user's guide to democracy.
		Born in the melting pot of New York City, Walzer was steeped in multiculturalism with his family of Jewish shopkeepers of Eastern European origin.
		Walzer’s formal political education began at Brandeis University—the first Jewish-sponsored university in the U.S. and a refuge for leftist intellectuals subjected to the McCarthyite red-hunts of the 1950s.
		In the mid-1960s when “white agitators” were “pushed out of the civil rights movement,” Walzer explains that he shifted camps to take an active role in the anti-war movement against U.S. intervention in Viet Nam.
	www.unesco.org /courier/2000_01/uk/dires/txt1.htm (3202 words)

	hot news - May 2: Michael Walzer to Speak at Maxwell School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		We are pleased to announce that the Maxwell School State of Democracy Lecture by Michael Walzer on "Terrorism and Just War Theory" has been rescheduled for May 2 at 4:30 p.m.
		Professor Walzer is a permanent faculty member of the Institute for Advanced Study and is editor of DISSENT magazine.
		As a social scientist and political philosopher and one of the nation's foremost public intellectuals, Walzer focuses on the moral implications of complex contemporary issues.
	www.syr.edu /news/2005-04-26_7323.html (170 words)

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