Based on extensive, first hand research in Borges native Buenos Aires, including interviews with surviving relatives and friends, this meticulous and evocative biography offers new insights into the life and work of Jorges Luis Borges. . A writer and journalist examines the life and works of one of the best-known South American writers. Impacting ...
The distinguished political philosopher and author of the widely acclaimed Just and Unjust Wars analyzes how society distributes not just wealth and power but other social goods like honor, education, work, free timeeven love..
Michael Walzer is one of the world's most eminent philosophers on the subject of war and ethics. Now, for the first time since his classic Just and Unjust Wars was published almost three decades ago, this volume brings together his most provocative arguments about contemporary military conflicts and the ethical issues they raise. The essays in the ...
Liberalism is egalitarian in principle, but why doesn't it do more to promote equality in practice? In this book, the distinguished political philosopher Michael Walzer offers a critique of liberal theory and demonstrates that crucial realities have been submerged in the evolution of contemporary liberal thought. In the standard versions of ...
Noted political philosopher Michael Walzer offers a moving meditation on the political meanings of the biblical story of Exodus. "Walzer knows his Bible. He stands in the growing ranks of contemporary academicians who are discovering in biblical and rabbinic sources a literature rich with significance for modern man".--Chaim Potok, "Philadelphia ...
Sartre's controversial analysis of the idea of the Jew in the mind of the anti-Semite remains an enduring contribution to the discussion of Jewish-Gentile relationships and a paradigm for the analysis of majority-minority relations.
Now reissued in paperback: A classic consideration, with new material, of the life and work of eleven of the twentieth century's most important social critics and political philosophers. The Company of Critics provides a fascinating survey of the terrain of social criticism in the last century. Organizing the book as a series of eleven ...
A defense of tolerance and the notion of common citizenship. Walzer describes the origins of liberal political ideals and describes the threats they face in the contemporary world from ideologues of identity politics and continental leftism.
This classic work examines the issues surrounding military theory, war crimes, and the spoils of war from the Athenian attack on Melos to the My Lai massacre. . A classic treatment of the morality of war written by one of our countrys leading philosophers, with a new introduction considering the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo. Just and Unjust Wars ...
Walzer revises and extends his arguments (first voiced in "Spheres of Justice"), framing his ideas about justice, social criticism and national identity in light of the new political world that has arisen in the last decade. The book examines maximalist and minimalist argument - "thick and thin".
This book launches a landmark four-volume collaborative work exploring the political thought of the Jewish people from biblical times to the present. Each volume includes a selection of texts from the Bible and Talmud, midrashic literature, legal responsa, treatises, and pamphlets annotated for modern readers and accompanied by new ...
A prize-winning group of war reporters and analysts looks back on the killing fields of the late twentieth century and poses provocative questions for the future of human rights. The question of the responsibility inherent in the unrivaled might of the U.S. military is one that continues to take up headlines across the globe. This award-winning ...
This classic work examines the issues surrounding military theory, war crimes, and the spoils of war from the Athenian attack on Melos to the My Lai massacre. . A classic treatment of the morality of war written by one of our countrys leading philosophers, with a new introduction considering the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo. Just and Unjust Wars ...
Dissent was founded in 1954 by intellectuals angered by the rightward drift of the country but uneasy with the dogmatism they saw on the American left, and it has provoked debates about political ideas and about American and global issues ever since. This provocative book - a collection of articles published in Dissent over the past fifty years - ...
Was the Persian Gulf War just? Bishops said no; the president said yes; even Doonesbury considered the question. In this ethical primer, six leading writers on war and peace--Jean Bethke Elshtain, Stanley Hauerwas, J. Bryan Hehir, Sari Nusseibeh, Michael Walzer, and George Weigel--take up the issue that confronts us all.
Michael Walzer is widely regarded as one of the world's leading political theorists. In a career spanning more than fifty years, he has wrestled with some of the most crucial political ideas and questions of the day, developing original conceptions of democracy, social justice, liberalism, civil society, nationalism, multiculturalism, and ...
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 ...
"Condensed to bumper-sticker pith, "What It Means to Be an American" asks everyone to "Honk If You Hate Us-Against-Them Thinking". Offering a fine antidote to exclusionist tripe about 'Americanism, ' Walzer grabs Pat Buchanan by the hyphens and doesn't let go".--"The Philadelphia Inquirer". Lightning Print On Demand Title
"The series to which this book belongs is unprecedented. . . . Every one of the chapters enacts a debate that should have a living resonance, not just for Jews, although obviously for them, but for everyone with a historical sense and a political conscience."--Hilary Putnam, "Boston"" Review" "A vast and important resource which will be consulted ...
The essays in this collection address the real-world risks and responsibilities of intervention faced by democratic states in cases of state-sponsored killings.Contributors include Michael Ignatieff, David Rieff, and William Shawcross.
The essays in this book by a group of leading political theorists assess and develop the central ideas of Michael Walzer's path-breaking Spheres of Justice. Is social justice a radically plural notion, with its principles determined by the different social goods that men and women allocate to one another? Is it possible to prevent the unequal ...
In this book Michael Walzer demystifies the activity of the social critic, providing a philosophical framework for understanding social criticism as social practice.
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