Michael Walzer Knihy

Dve diela významného amerického filozofa o morálke a politike. Dielo Hrubý a tenký je o výzvach, uprostred ktorých sa po kolapse komunistických režimov ocitol svet a postkomunistické režimy zvlášť, o tom, ako v tejto zložitej spleti distribuovať dobro a spravodlivosť. Druhá práca O tolerancii dopĺňa túto myšlienku úvahami o režimoch tolerancie, o tom, ako môže tolerancia fungovať v podmienkach náboženskej, rasovej, etnickej, kmeňovej rôznorodosti.

Autor se v knize pokouší poskytnout filosofický rámec chápání sociální kritiky jako společenské praxe. Odůvodňuje tezi, že nejvhodnější je chápat sociální kritiku jako kritickou interpretaci.

Kniha je označována jako nejvýznamnější dílo současnosti v teorii spravedlivé války. Poprvé byla vydána v roce 1977 a nyní vychází česky s novou předmluvou a doslovem. Zkoumá morální otázky, jež vyvstávají před válkami, které vedeme, během nich a po nich. Úvahy a argumentaci doplňují historické ilustrace – od útoku Athéňanů na Mélos přes masakr v My Lai až po Afghánistán a ještě dál. Walzer těží z historických líčení, svědectví účastníků, z historických rozhodnutí a vyprávění obětí, aby vysvětlil, kdy je válka oprávněná a kdy ty, kteří válku vedou, omezují etické limity.

In this collection of essays, Michael Walzer discusses how obligations are incurred, sustained, and (sometimes) abandoned by citizens of the modern state and members of political parties and movements as they respond to and participate in the most crucial and controversial aspects of citizenship: resistance, dissent, civil disobedience, war, and revolution. Walzer approaches these issues with insight and historical perspective, exhibiting an extraordinary understanding for rebels, radicals, and rational revolutionaries. The reader will not always agree with Walzer but he cannot help being stimulated, excited, challenged, and moved to thoughtful analysis.

Political theorist Michael Walzer's classic guide is a perfect introduction to social activism, including what-to-do advice for deciding which issues to take on, organizing, fundraising, and providing effective leadership Political Action is a how-to book for activists that was written at one of the darkest moments of the Nixon administration and remains no less timely and intelligent and useful today. Michael Walzer draws on his extensive engagement in the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s to lay out the practical steps necessary to keep movement politics alive both in victory and in defeat. What do people need to do when out of outrage or fear of looming disaster they come together to demand change? Should they focus on one or several issues? Should they form coalitions? What can and can’t be accomplished through electoral politics? How can movements operate democratically? What is effective leadership? Walzer addresses such questions with clarity, concision, wisdom, and wit in a book that everywhere insists not only on the centrality of movement politics to the health of democratic societies but on the deep satisfaction that is to be found there. Political Action is both an indispensable resource for activists and a lasting and inspiring summons to arms.

A noted political philosopher offers a moving meditation on the political meanings of the biblical story of Exodus - from oppression to deliverance and the promised land.

A penetrating investigation into moral and ethical questions raised by war, drawing on examples from antiquity to the present Just and Unjust Wars has forever changed how we think about the ethics of conflict. In this modern classic, political philosopher Michael Walzer examines the moral issues that arise before, during, and after the wars we fight. Reaching from the Athenian attack on Melos, to the Mai Lai massacre, to the current war in Afghanistan and beyond, Walzer mines historical and contemporary accounts and the testimony of participants, decision makers, and victims to explain when war is justified and what ethical limitations apply to those who wage it.

Something that has been needed for decades: a leftist foreign policy with a clear moral basis

A testament to what it means to be liberal by one of the most prominent political philosophers of our era

Revising and extending the arguments he put forth in Spheres of Justice, the author frames his ideas about justice, social criticism, and national identity in light of the new political world that has arisen in the past decade.