{"product_id":"the-company-of-critics-social-criticsm-and-political-commitment-in-the-twentieth-century-paperback","title":"The Company of Critics: Social Criticsm and Political Commitment in the Twentieth Century - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Walzer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePolitical philosopher Michael Walzer's seminal account of social critics and criticism of the twentieth century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This book proves again that Michael Walzer is a writer of rare elegance, intellectual range and moral seriousness.\" --\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Diogenes to Nietzsche, the ideal social critic has long been imagined as an outsider, the dissenting intellectual who must break with society to correctly diagnose its flaws. In this classic text, Michael Walzer upends that tradition by showing that the most effective social critics are those who remain deeply embedded in their own communities, appealing to their shared values while working to improve everyone's lives. But as Walzer also reveals, remaining a part of the community while telling it hard truths is incredibly difficult work. Through portraits of eleven major twentieth-century figures--from Simone de Beauvoir to George Orwell, Albert Camus to Michel Foucault--he shows what this difficult balance looks like in practice, and what happens when critics have lost it. Ranging across ideologies and continents, \u003ci\u003eThe Company of Critics\u003c\/i\u003e offers a powerful vision of what social criticism should be in the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Walzer\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emeritus of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, and the author of many widely heralded books, including \u003ci\u003eJust and Unjust Wars\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSpheres of Justice.\u003c\/i\u003e He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.74 x 7.94 x 5.32 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 04, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53527297982771,"sku":"9780465090617","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/the-company-of-critics-social-criticsm-and-political-commitment-in-the-twentieth-century-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}