Michael Walzer is Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA. He is an editor emeriti of the political-intellectual quarterly Dissent, and is a contributing editor to The New Republic. To date, he has written 27 books and published over 300 articles, essays, and book reviews in Dissent, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, the New York Times, and many scholarly journals.Yitzhak Benbaji teaches ethics, political philosophy and philosophy of law at the Tel Aviv University Law Faculty, Israel.Naomi Sussmann is head of Citizenship and Community in Molad, The Centre for the renewal of Israeli Democracy, Jerusalem.

• Introduction: The Substantive Unity of Michael Walzer's Pluralism Naomi Sussmann Part 1: The Moral Standing of States 1. Toleration, Self-Determination and the State David Miller 2. Taking Rights Seriously and the Human Rights Discourse Ruth Gavison 3. The Moral Standing of States Revisited Charles Beitz 4. On Mill, Walzer and Non-Intervention Michael Doyle Response Michael Walzer Part 2: State and Culture 5. What it Means to be a Pluralist Jacob Levy 6. Categorizing Groups, Categorizing States: Theorizing Minority Rights in a World of Deep Diversity Will Kymlicka 7. Between Sacred and Secular: Michael Walzer's Story of Exodus Bonnie Honig Response Michael Walzer Part 3: Politics and the Spheres of Justice 8. Justice beyond Fairness Michael Sandel 9. Plural Equality Thomas Scanlon 10. Walzer's Radicalism George Kateb Response Michael Walzer Part 4: Just War Theory 11. Individual Responsibility and the Law of Jus ad Bellum Jeff McMahan 12. Cosmopolitanism and the Laws of War Yitzhak Benbaji 13. Risk Taking and Force Protection David Luban 14. The Moral Psychic Reality of War Nancy Sherman Response Michael Walzer. Index

"Reading Walzer is taking Walzer seriously by providing attentive reading of an inspired political thinker with inspiring political thoughts. It covers many aspects of Walzer's thoughts not only with celebratory panache but also with critical punch. To read Michael Walzer is an aesthetic feast, to read Reading Walzer retains the flavor of reading the original." - Avishai Margalit, Princeton University, USA"For more than 40 years, Michael Walzer has been one of the most distinctive, wide-ranging, and consistently interesting voices in political theory. These 14 essays by a top-flight cast of philosophers, political scientists, and legal scholars, display, in a critical and probing manner, the richness of Walzer’s legacy. Reading Walzer is a most welcome contribution, and clearly the best secondary source on Walzer available today." - Endre Begby, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Michael Walzer is Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA. He is an editor emeriti of the political-intellectual quarterly Dissent, and is a contributing editor to The New Republic. To date, he has written 27 books and published over 300 articles, essays, and book reviews in Dissent, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, the New York Times, and many scholarly journals.Yitzhak Benbaji teaches ethics, political philosophy and philosophy of law at the Tel Aviv University Law Faculty, Israel.Naomi Sussmann is head of Citizenship and Community in Molad, The Centre for the renewal of Israeli Democracy, Jerusalem.

• Introduction: The Substantive Unity of Michael Walzer's Pluralism Naomi Sussmann Part 1: The Moral Standing of States 1. Toleration, Self-Determination and the State David Miller 2. Taking Rights Seriously and the Human Rights Discourse Ruth Gavison 3. The Moral Standing of States Revisited Charles Beitz 4. On Mill, Walzer and Non-Intervention Michael Doyle Response Michael Walzer Part 2: State and Culture 5. What it Means to be a Pluralist Jacob Levy 6. Categorizing Groups, Categorizing States: Theorizing Minority Rights in a World of Deep Diversity Will Kymlicka 7. Between Sacred and Secular: Michael Walzer's Story of Exodus Bonnie Honig Response Michael Walzer Part 3: Politics and the Spheres of Justice 8. Justice beyond Fairness Michael Sandel 9. Plural Equality Thomas Scanlon 10. Walzer's Radicalism George Kateb Response Michael Walzer Part 4: Just War Theory 11. Individual Responsibility and the Law of Jus ad Bellum Jeff McMahan 12. Cosmopolitanism and the Laws of War Yitzhak Benbaji 13. Risk Taking and Force Protection David Luban 14. The Moral Psychic Reality of War Nancy Sherman Response Michael Walzer. Index

"Reading Walzer is taking Walzer seriously by providing attentive reading of an inspired political thinker with inspiring political thoughts. It covers many aspects of Walzer's thoughts not only with celebratory panache but also with critical punch. To read Michael Walzer is an aesthetic feast, to read Reading Walzer retains the flavor of reading the original." - Avishai Margalit, Princeton University, USA"For more than 40 years, Michael Walzer has been one of the most distinctive, wide-ranging, and consistently interesting voices in political theory. These 14 essays by a top-flight cast of philosophers, political scientists, and legal scholars, display, in a critical and probing manner, the richness of Walzer’s legacy. Reading Walzer is a most welcome contribution, and clearly the best secondary source on Walzer available today." - Endre Begby, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Michael Walzer is Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA. He is an editor emeriti of the political-intellectual quarterly Dissent, and is a contributing editor to The New Republic. To date, he has written 27 books and published over 300 articles, essays, and book reviews in Dissent, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, the New York Times, and many scholarly journals.Yitzhak Benbaji teaches ethics, political philosophy and philosophy of law at the Tel Aviv University Law Faculty, Israel.Naomi Sussmann is head of Citizenship and Community in Molad, The Centre for the renewal of Israeli Democracy, Jerusalem.

• Introduction: The Substantive Unity of Michael Walzer's Pluralism Naomi Sussmann Part 1: The Moral Standing of States 1. Toleration, Self-Determination and the State David Miller 2. Taking Rights Seriously and the Human Rights Discourse Ruth Gavison 3. The Moral Standing of States Revisited Charles Beitz 4. On Mill, Walzer and Non-Intervention Michael Doyle Response Michael Walzer Part 2: State and Culture 5. What it Means to be a Pluralist Jacob Levy 6. Categorizing Groups, Categorizing States: Theorizing Minority Rights in a World of Deep Diversity Will Kymlicka 7. Between Sacred and Secular: Michael Walzer's Story of Exodus Bonnie Honig Response Michael Walzer Part 3: Politics and the Spheres of Justice 8. Justice beyond Fairness Michael Sandel 9. Plural Equality Thomas Scanlon 10. Walzer's Radicalism George Kateb Response Michael Walzer Part 4: Just War Theory 11. Individual Responsibility and the Law of Jus ad Bellum Jeff McMahan 12. Cosmopolitanism and the Laws of War Yitzhak Benbaji 13. Risk Taking and Force Protection David Luban 14. The Moral Psychic Reality of War Nancy Sherman Response Michael Walzer. Index

"Reading Walzer is taking Walzer seriously by providing attentive reading of an inspired political thinker with inspiring political thoughts. It covers many aspects of Walzer's thoughts not only with celebratory panache but also with critical punch. To read Michael Walzer is an aesthetic feast, to read Reading Walzer retains the flavor of reading the original." - Avishai Margalit, Princeton University, USA"For more than 40 years, Michael Walzer has been one of the most distinctive, wide-ranging, and consistently interesting voices in political theory. These 14 essays by a top-flight cast of philosophers, political scientists, and legal scholars, display, in a critical and probing manner, the richness of Walzer’s legacy. Reading Walzer is a most welcome contribution, and clearly the best secondary source on Walzer available today." - Endre Begby, Simon Fraser University, Canada