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.
Author(s): Michael Walzer
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Year: 1970
Language: English
Pages: xvi, 244
City: Cambridge, Mass
Copyright
Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction
Part One: Disobedience
1 The Obligation to Disobey
2 Civil Disobedience and Corporate Authority
3 The Obligations of Oppressed Minorities
Appendix: On the Responsibility of Intellectuals
Part Two: War
4 The Obligation to Die for the State
5 Political Alienation and Military Service
6 Conscientious Objection
7 Prisoners of War: Does the Fight Continue After the Battle?
Part Three: Citizenship
8 The Obligation to Live for the State
9 Political Solidarity and Personal Honor
10 The Problem of Citizenship
Appendix: Three Kinds of Citizenship
11 A Day in the Life of a Socialist Citizen
Index
