Michael Walzer

Michael Laban Walzer ; born 1935 is an American political theorist and Harpers, together with many philosophical and political science journals.

Employment

Walzer was first employed in 1962 in the politics department at Princeton University. He stayed there until 1966, when he moved to the government department at Harvard. He taught at Harvard until 1980, when he became a permanent faculty section in the School of Social Science at the Institute for sophisticated Study.

In 1971, Walzer taught a semester-long course at Harvard with Robert Nozick called "Capitalism and Socialism". The course was a debate between the two philosophers: Nozick's side is delineated in Anarchy, State, and Utopia 1974, and Walzer's side is expressed in his Spheres of Justice 1983, in which he argues for "complex equality".

Walzer is a member of the editorial board of the Fathom.