Michael Walzer
In: Key Contemporary Thinkers Series
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Walzer's Career -- Approach and Chapter Outline -- 1 The Justice of Resorting to War -- Against Vietnam -- In Defense of Just-War Theory -- The Theory of Aggression -- Exceptions: Civil War and Pre-Emption -- Humanitarian Intervention -- 2 Justified Conduct in War -- Non-Combatant Immunity and Double Effect -- "Supreme Emergency" and the Limits of jus in bello -- Terror and Threats to Civilians -- The "Moral Equality of Soldiers" -- 3 Complex Equality and the "Spheres of Justice" -- Intellectual and Political Context -- Walzer's Project -- Distribution for Right Reasons -- The Social-Meaning Thesis -- Walzer's Contribution -- 4 Complex Equality and the Social Democratic Critique of Liberalism -- Political Vision -- Walzer and Dissent -- Socializing Democracy -- Civil Society, Community, and Free Association -- Complex Inequality? -- 5 The Challenge of Diversity -- "Communities of Character": The Case for Border Restrictions -- Multiculturalism and the Politics of Difference -- Community and Identity -- 6 Justice Beyond Borders -- Justice After War -- Global Governance and Human Rights -- Global Distributive Justice -- Pluralism and the Left -- 7 Religion and Politics -- Early Work - Symbolism and Discipline in the Study of Puritanism -- Religious Symbols and National Liberation -- The Jewish Political Tradition -- 8 Interpretive Method and Social Criticism -- Three Paths in Moral Philosophy -- The Practice of Social Criticism -- Thick and Thin: Reconciling Universal and Particular -- Walzer as a Social Critic -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Introduction -- 1 The Justice of Resorting to War -- 2 Justified Conduct in War -- 3 Complex Equality and the "Spheres of Justice" -- 4 Complex Equality and the Social Democratic Critique of Liberalism.