Michael Walzer

Michael Walzer (13 March 1935 - ) is a philosopher of society, politics, and ethics currently working as a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He has written on a wide range of topics, including just and unjust wars, nationalism, ethnicity, economic justice, criticism, radicalism, tolerance, and political obligation. Outside of his academic work he acts as editor-in-chief of Dissent, an American left-wing magazine and is a contributing editor to The New Republic. He is also on the Editorial Board of the academic journal Philosophy & Public Affairs. To date he has published over thirty five articles in scholarly journals. He is a member of several philosophical organizations including the American Philosophical Society.

Employment

Walzer was first employed as a professor in 1962 by Princeton University. He stayed there until 1966 when he moved to Harvard. He taught at Harvard until 1980 when he became a Permanent Faculty Member in the School of Social Sciences at the IAS.

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1962 - Princeton University - 1966 - Harvard - 1980 - IAS

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