Talk:Michael Walzer

Iraq War
Did Walzer believe the latest Iraq war was just or unjust?

== No It wasn't just, the Iraq was is unjust.

Almost a year after the above question was posed: unjust. According to the review of his book that is referenced in this article, that is.

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Paragraph out of Context
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Support for Israel´s invasion of Lebanon: "Walzer’s explicit support for the Lebanon war (“I certainly welcome the political defeat of the PLO, and I believe that the limited military operation [sic] required to inflict that defeat can be defended under the theory of just war”; September 8, 1982" Cited from Chomsky’s ‘Fateful Triangle’: An Exchange (Nybooks, 1984)

It seems relevant but should be placed under an appropriate heading. Best, HAGAD (talk) 11:53, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Tributes
A section of the article is currently titled "Tributes". Perhaps "Recognition" would be a better term. The section contains some very poor writing in my opinion, especially the line: "Perhaps the highest honor a scholar can achieve is serious attention given by other scholars to his body of work; in this regard Walzer has been greatly honored." There are no references or examples following this bit of text. Stefan Kruithof (talk) 15:18, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

I think it's probably best to drop the sentence in the "Recognition" section listing a particular work that has made use of Walzer's theory. Lots of books have done this, and it actually undersells his influence to include just one. It's also not really recognition in the right sense. (Anyway, a more obvious book, if wanted one, is Brian Orend's "Michael Walzer on War and Justice", since it shows distinctly that Walzer is being discussed.)

I'll revisit this after a while, but if its still the same when I come back, I'll change the section I'm referring to. 173.32.35.78 (talk) 23:35, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Communitarian
This line is highly problematic, and misleading at best: "Michael Walzer is usually identified as one of the leading proponents of the "Communitarian" position in political theory, along with Alasdair MacIntyre and Michael Sandel." First, weasel words. "Usually identified" by whom??? This is unacceptably vague. I am a political theorist and I do not "usually identify" any of the above as communitarians; that label was never accepted by MacIntyre and Sandel (not sure about Walzer) and has proven to be so problematic and, ultimately, meaningless that it has largely been abandoned. Second, this is highly misleading, since Walzer, Sandel, and MacIntyre have very little in common. This sentence strongly implies that they share a particular "position," which is very definitely false.

The bulk of Walzer's views, at least in the economic sphere, are broadly classifiable as socialist, and if he is going to be given a label, it should be socialist, not communitarian. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Reader335 (talk • contribs) 16:40, 28 April 2011 (UTC)


 * I watch this page because I have spent a lot of time editing Toleration. Frankly, I had never heard of "communitarian" before, so I have no opinion. I agree that "usually identified" sounds weaselly without a reference. I have no problem with your deleting "communitarian" but please don't add socialist without a source that shows he self-identifies as such. Or maybe we just don't need to label him. Jonathanwallace (talk) 17:57, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

Criticisms of Walzer's Work?
Walzer's influence in political theory is undoubtedly considerable; however, his work has also generated a great deal of criticism, as many theorists of considerable influence also do. Take for example the criticism of Walzer's justification of United States interventionism from Noam Chomsky, or the dialog between Walzer and James B. Rule on the subject of Israel. Joeyvandernaald (talk) 23:29, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

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