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