Avishai Margalit

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1. Michael Walzer

   Author of Just and unjust wars : a moral argument with historical illustrations, Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality, On Toleration (Castle Lectures Series)

2. John Rawls

   Author of Political Liberalism, The Law of Peoples, Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy

3. Isaiah Berlin

   Author of Four Essays on Liberty, The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays, Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas

4. Bernard Williams

   Author of Shame and Necessity (Sather Classical Lectures, Vol 57), Truth and truthfulness: an essay in genealogy, Moral Luck

5. Martha C. Nussbaum

   Author of Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions, Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education

6. Jean-Claude Michéa

   Author of L'empire du moindre mal : Essai sur la civilisation libérale, Impasse Adam Smith

7. Thomas Nagel

   Author of Mortal Questions, Equality and Partiality

8. Mark Lilla

   Author of The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West, The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics

9. Quentin Skinner

   Author of The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, Vol. 1: The Renaissance, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, Vol. 2: The Age of Reformation

10. Michael J. Sandel

    Author of Liberalism and the Limits of Justice, Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy

11. Richard Rorty

    Author of Philosophy and Social Hope, Achieving Our Country : Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America

12. Charles Taylor

    Author of The Ethics of Authenticity, Multiculturalism: Examining the politics of recognition

13. Raymond Aron

    Author of The Dawn of Universal History: Selected Essays from a Witness of the Twentieth Century

14. Will Kymlicka

    Author of Contemporary Political Philosophy, Multicultural Citizenship

15. Jürgen Habermas

    Author of Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy (Studies in Contemporary German Social, The Inclusion of the Other: Studies in Political Theory (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)

16. Susan Neiman

    Author of Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy

17. Alasdair MacIntyre

    Author of A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century

18. Gregory Vlastos

    Author of Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher

19. Philip Pettit

    Author of Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government (Oxford Political Theory)

20. Carl Schmitt

    Author of The Concept of the Political