Books by Michael Walzer

That is the new Michael Walzer book, with the subtitle Secular Revolutions and Religious Counterrevolutions .  The stated paradox is fairly simple, yet worthy of sustained attention:

Commodification is a hot topic in recent philosophy. There’s a limitless market for books about the limits of markets. The question: Are there some things which you permissibly may possess, use, and give away, but which are wrong to buy and sell? Most authors who write about this say yes. Peter Jaworski and I say no. There are no inherent limits to markets. Everything you may give away you may sell, and everything you may take for free you may buy. We defend that thesis in our book Markets witho...