Obligations: Essays on Disobedience, War, and Citizenship

by Michael Walzer

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674630254
• ISBN13: 9780674630253
• Release Date: May 1982
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.2"