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Michael Ignatieff

Michael Ignatieff

·3.76·2,484 Ratings
“ Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. ” ― Rumi
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  • The Needs Of Strangers

    1994·
    ·3.77·70 Ratings
    This brilliant and penetrating book uncovers a crisis in the political imagination, a wide-spread failure to provide the passionate sense of community "in which our need for belonging can be met". Seeking the answers to fundamental questions, Michael Igna
  • Isaiah Berlin: A Life

    2000·
    ·4.18·179 Ratings
    Isaiah Berlin refused to write an autobiography, but he agreed to talk about himself - and so for ten years, he allowed Michael Ignatieff to interview him. Isaiah Berlin (1909-97) was one of the greatest and most humane of modern philosophers; historian o
  • The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror

    2005·
    ·3.42·147 Ratings
    Must we fight terrorism with terror, match assassination with assassination, and torture with torture? Must we sacrifice civil liberty to protect public safety? In the age of terrorism, the temptations of ruthlessness can be overwhelming. But we are pulle
  • Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry

    2003·
    ·3.68·128 Ratings
    Michael Ignatieff draws on his extensive experience as a writer and commentator on world affairs to present a penetrating account of the successes, failures, and prospects of the human rights revolution. Since the United Nations adopted the Universal Decl
  • Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism

    1995·
    ·3.87·213 Ratings
    Until the end of the Cold War, the politics of national identity was confined to isolated incidents of ethnics strife and civil war in distant countries. Now, with the collapse of Communist regimes across Europe and the loosening pf the Cold War'd clamp o
  • Scar Tissue

    2000·
    ·3.68·217 Ratings
    At the heart of Michael Ignatieff's riveting novel about a woman's descent into Alzheimer's are the tangled threads of a Midwestern family, frayed by time and tragedy yet still connected - as much by pride, embarrassed love, and sibling rivalry as by the
  • The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience

    1998·
    ·3.87·101 Ratings
    Since the early 1990s, Michael Ignatieff has traveled the world's war zones, from Bosnia to the West Bank, from Afghanistan to central Africa. The Warrior's Honor is a report and a reflection on what he has seen in the places where ethnic war has become a
  • Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics

    2013·
    ·3.79·295 Ratings
    In 2005 Michael Ignatieff left his life as a writer and professor at Harvard University to enter the combative world of politics back home in Canada. By 2008, he was leader of the country's Liberal Party and poised--should the governing Conservatives falt
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