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Thinking politically : essays in political theory

Michael Walzer is widely regarded as one of the world's leading political theorists. This book brings together some of Walzer's important work to provide a wide-ranging survey of his thinking and the vision that underlies his responses to contemporary political debates. It also includes a essay on human rights.
Print Book, English, 2007
Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 2007
xxi, 333 pages ; 21 cm
9780300143225, 0300143222
1015525513
Philosophy and democracy
A critique of philosophical conversation
Objectivity and social meaning
Liberalism and the art of separation
Justice here and now
Exclusion, injustice, and the democratic state
The communitarian critique of liberalism
The civil society argument
Deliberation, and what else?
Drawing the line : religion and politics
The politics of difference : statehood and toleration in a multicultural world
Nation and universe
The moral standing of states : a response to four critics
The argument about humanitarian intervention
Beyond humanitarian intervention : human rights in global society
Terrorism and just war
Political action : the problem of dirty hands
The United States in the world
just wars and just societies : an interview with Michael Walzer