Reading Walzer [Paperback]

Michael Walzer is one of the worlds 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 Walzeris the first book to assess the full range of Walzers work. An outstanding team of international contributors consider the following topics in relation to Walzers 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
• Walzers radicalism and role as a critic.

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

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  ResponseMichael Walzer  Part 2: State and Culture  5. What it Means to be a Pluralist Jacob Levy  6. Categorizing Groups, Categorizing States: Theorizing Minorl³r