Obligations: Essays on Disobedience, War, and Citizenship - Softcover

Walzer, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674630254 ISBN 13: 9780674630253

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1982

Synopsis

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.

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Essays on Disobedience, War, and Citizenship

Review:

This book by Professor Walzer stands as a fresh demonstration that two centuries' development of analytic tools and reasoning can carry old premises to conclusions both fresh and subtle.--David L. Bazelon

A distinguished contribution; political theorists will learn much from this book and so should many non-theorists as well. To them it offers not only a series of penetrating analyses...but also an outstanding example of that working out of a tradition of thought which...is so vital to the vocation of political theory.--American Political Science Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0674630254
• ISBN 13: 9780674630253
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 260