Michael Walzer

Curriculum vitae

School of Social Science                                                                                        

Institute for Advanced Study                                                                                  

Princeton, NJ 08540                                                                                                

EDUCATION:

• Brandeis University, B.A., 1956
• Cambridge University (Fulbright Fellowship), 1956-57
• Harvard University, Ph.D., 1961

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

• Princeton University, 1962-66
• Harvard University, 1966-80

COURSES TAUGHT:

• History of Modem Political Thought
• Problems in Contemporary Political Philosophy Obligations
• Means and Ends Just War
• Politics and Literature in the Seventeenth Century
• Problems in Socialist Thought
• The Political Theory of Nationalism

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT:

• Since 1980, Permanent Faculty Member, Institute for Advanced Study

OTHER ACTIVITIES:

• Editor, Dissent
• Member, Editorial Board, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Political Theory
• Contributing Editor, The New Republic
• Member, Board of Governors, Hebrew University
• Member, Board of Trustees, Brandeis University, 1983-88

Bibliography

BOOKS

• The Revolution of the Saints: A Study in the Origins of Radical Politics (Harvard University Press, 1965); translations: French, Italian.
• Obligations: Essays on Disobedience, War and Citizenship (Harvard University Press, 1970); translations: Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese. Amazon: $18.00; BN: $18.00,
• Political Action (Quadrangle Books, 1971)
• Regicide and Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 1974); translation: French; new ed. Columbia University Press, 1993
• Just and Unjust Wars (Basic Books, 1977, second edition, 1992); translations: Hebrew, Spanish, Italian, German, French.   Amazon: $20.00;    BN: $20.00.
• Radical Principles (Basic Books, 1977).
• Spheres of Justice (Basic Books, 1983); translations: Italian, German, Swedish, French, Spanish; forthcoming in Japanese. Amazon: $21.00; BN: $21.00
• Exodus and Revolution (Basic Books, 1985); translations: French, German, Italian, Japanese, Hebrew. BN: $12.80.
• Interpretation and Social Criticism (Harvard University Press, 1987); translations: French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish. Amazon.com $14.00; BN.com: $9.95.
• The Company of Critics (Basic Books, 1988); translations: Italian, German, French, Spanish, Lithuanian; forthcoming in Russian.
• Civil Society and American Democracy (Rotbuch Verlag, 1992, selected essays--in German)
• Thick and Thin: Moral Argument at Home and Abroad (Notre Dame Press, 1994); translations: Italian, German, Spanish; forthcoming in French. Amazon: $10.00; BN: $10.00.
• Pluralism, Justice and Equality, with David Miller (Oxford University Press, 1995).
• On Toleration (Yale University Press, 1997). Translations in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Estonian, Greek, Turkish, Hebrew; forthcoming in Polish, Lithuanian, Turkish. Amazon: $7.96; BN: $ 7.96.
• Arguments from the Left (Atlas, 1997, selected essays--in Swedish).
• Pluralism and Democracy (Editions Esprit, 1997, selected essays--in French).
• Reason, Politics, and Passion (Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1999-The Horkheimer Lectures, in German).

SELECTED ARTICLES

• "Political Action: The Problem of Dirty Hands," Philosophy and Public Affairs, 1973.
• "In Defense of Equality," Dissent, 1973
• Civility and Civil Virtue in Contemporary America," Social Research 1974,
• "A Theory of Revolution," Marxist Perspectives, 1979
• "Political Decision-Making and Political Education," Political Theory and Political Education (Princeton University Press, 1980).
• "The Moral Standing of States," Philosophy and Public Affairs, 1980
• "The Political Theory of Ethnic Pluralism," Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups, 1980.
• "The Distribution of Membership," in Boundaries: National Autonomy and its Limits (Rowman & Littlefield, 1981).
• "Philosophy and Democracy," Political Theory, 1981
• "On Failed Totalitarianism," in 1984 Revisited (Harper & Row, 1983).
• "The Politics of Michel Foucault," Dissent 1983,
• "Liberalism and the Art of Separation," Political Theory, 1984.
• "Introduction to Isaiah Berlin's" The Hedgehog and the Fox (Simon and Shuster, 1986).
• "Notes on Self-Criticism," Social Research, 1987
• "Citizenship," in Political Innovation and Conceptual Change (Cambridge University Press, 1989).
• "A Critique of Philosophical Conversation," The Philosophical Forum, 1989.
• "What Does It Mean to Be an American?" Social Research. 1990
• "The Communitarian Critique of Liberalism," Political Theory, 1990.
• "The Idea of Civil Society," Dissent, 1991
• "The New Tribalism," Dissent, 1992.
• "The Legal Codes of Ancient Israel," Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, 1992
• "The Idea of Holy War in Ancient Israel," Journal of Religious Ethics, 1992.
• "Objectivity and Social Meaning," in The Quality of Life (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1993).
• "Multi-culturalism and Individualism," Dissent, 1994
• "Preface" to Jean-Paul Sartre's Anti-Semite and Jew, (Schocken Books, 1995)
• "On Negative Politics," in Liberialism without Illusions (University of Chicago Press, 1996).                             
• "War and Peace in the Jewish Tradition," in The Ethics of War and Peace (Princeton University Press, 1996).
• "Rethinking Social Democracy," Dissent, 1998,
• "Multiculturalism and the Politics of Interest," in Insider/Outsider (University of California Press, 1998

September 1999