Reading Walzer

ISBN-13: 9780415780308 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 342 str.

Yitzhak Benbaji; Naomi Sussmann

Opis

Michael Walzer is one of the world's leading philosophers and political theorists. In addition to his best-known books such as Spheres of Justice, and Just and Unjust Wars, he has contributed to contemporary political debates beyond academia in the New York Times, the New Yorker and Dissent. Reading Walzer is the first book to assess the full range of Walzer's work. An outstanding team of international contributors consider the following topics in relation to Walzer's work:

• the moral standing of nation states
• individual responsibility and laws governing the conduct of war
• debates over intervention and non-intervention
• human and minority rights
• moral and cultural pluralism
• equality
• justice
• Walzer's radicalism and role as a critic.

All chapters have been specially commissioned for this collection, and Walzer's responses to his critics makes Reading Walzer essential reading for students of political philosophy and political theory.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Substantive Unity of Michael Walzer's Pluralism Naomi Sussmann  Part 1: The Moral Standing of States  1. Toleration, Self-Determination and the State David Miller  2. Taking Rights Seriously and the Human Rights Discourse Ruth Gavison  3. The Moral Standing of States Revisited Charles Beitz  4. On Mill, Walzer and Non-Intervention Michael Doyle  Response Michael Walzer  Part 2: State and Culture  5. What it Means to be a Pluralist Jacob Levy  6. Categorizing Groups, Categorizing States: Theorizing Minority Rights in a World of Deep Diversity Will Kymlicka  7. Between Sacred and Secular: Michael Walzer's Story of Exodus Bonnie Honig  Response Michael Walzer  Part 3: Politics and the Spheres of Justice  8. Justice beyond Fairness Michael Sandel  9. Plural Equality Thomas Scanlon  10. Walzer's Radicalism George Kateb  Response Michael Walzer  Part 4: Just War Theory  11. Individual Responsibility and the Law of Jus ad Bellum Jeff McMahan  12. Cosmopolitanism and the Laws of War Yitzhak Benbaji  13. Risk Taking and Force Protection David Luban  14. The Moral Psychic Reality of War Nancy Sherman  Response Michael Walzer.  Index

O autorze

Michael Walzer is Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA. He is an editor emeriti of the political-intellectual quarterly Dissent, and is 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, and many scholarly journals.

Yitzhak Benbaji teaches ethics, political philosophy and philosophy of law at the Tel Aviv University Law Faculty, Israel.

Naomi Sussmann is head of Citizenship and Community in Molad, The Centre for the renewal of Israeli Democracy, Jerusalem.