The Annual Caroline and Joseph S. Gruss Lecture
Fall 2006: Michael Walzer
On Tuesday, October 24, 2006, the Annual Caroline and Joseph S. Gruss Lecture was presented by Michael Walzer, Contributing Editor for The New Republic and Co-Editor of Dissent at 6:00 PM in Martin Lipton Hall located in D'Agostino Hall. The lecture was entitled " The Ethics of War in the Jewish Tradition." Following the lecture there was a short cocktail reception.
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Michael Walzer Biographical Information
As a professor, author, editor, and lecturer, Michael Walzer has addressed a wide variety of topics in political theory and moral philosophy: political obligation, war, nationalism and ethnicity, and economic justice and the welfare state. His books (among them Just and Unjust Wars, Spheres of Justice, The Company of Critics, Thick and Thin: Moral Argument at Home and Abroad, and On Toleration) and essays have played a part in the revival of practical, issue-focused ethics and in the development of a pluralist approach to political and moral life.
Walzer received his Ph.D. at Harvard, and taught at Princeton and Harvard before becoming a Permanent Faculty Member at The Institute for Advanced Study’s School of Social Science in 1980.
Walzer is a Contributing Editor for The New Republic, and Co-Editor of Dissent, now in its 52nd year. His articles and interviews frequently appear in the world’s foremost newspapers and journals.
He is currently working on the toleration and accommodation of "difference" in all its forms, and also on the third volume of The Jewish Political Tradition, a comprehensive collaborative project focused on the history of Jewish political thought.
