Reading Walzer / edited by Yitzhak Benbaji and Naomi Sussmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Benbaji, Yitzhak, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Walzer, Michael.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Physical Description:

x, 341 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

1 [edition].

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

Summary:

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-intervenion, human and minority rights, moral and cultural pluralism, equality, justice, Walzer's radicalism and role as a critic. All chapters have been especially commissioned for this collection, and Walzer's responses to his critics makes Reading Walzer essential reading for students of political philosophy and political theory. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1: The Moral Standing of States

Summaries

Toleration, Self-Determination and the State / David Miller

Taking Rights Seriously and the Human Rights Discourse / Ruth Gavison

The Moral Standing of States Revisited / Charles Beitz

On Mill, Walzer and Non-Intervention / Michael Doyle

Response / Michael Walzer

Part 2: State and Culture

What it Means to be a Pluralist / Jacob Levy

Categorizing Groups, Categorizing States: Theorizing Minority Rights in a World of Deep Diversity / Will Kymlicka

Between Sacred and Secular: Michael Walzer's Story of Exodus / Bonnie Honig

Part 3: Politics and the Spheres of Justice

Justice beyond Fairness / Michael Sandel

Plural Equality / Thomas Scanlon

Walzer's Radicalism / George Kateb

Just War Theory

Individual Responsibility and the Law of Jus ad Bellum / Jeff McMahan

Cosmopolitanism and the Laws of War / Yitzhak Benbaji

Risk Taking and Force Protection / David Luban

The Moral Psychic Reality of War / Nancy Sherman

Response / Michael Walzer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415780308

0415780306

9780415780315

0415780314

OCLC:

712124141