Michael Ignatieff is Carr Professor of Human Rights Practice and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. His numerous books include
Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry (Princeton) and
The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror.
31 Ebooks by Michael Ignatieff
Michael Ignatieff: American Exceptionalism and Human Rights
With the 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq, the most controversial question in world politics fast became whether the United States stands within the order of international law or outsi …
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Michael Ignatieff: Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry
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 revolut …
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€39.99
Isaiah Berlin: The Hedgehog and the Fox
‘The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.’ This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin’s mast …
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€13.99
Michael Ignatieff: The Lesser Evil
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 temptatio …
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€37.99
Jonathan Moore: Hard Choices
Since Somalia, the international community has found itself changing its view of humanitarian intervention. Operations designed to alleviate suffering and achieve peace sometimes produce damaging …
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€55.32
Michael Ignatieff: Charlie Johnson in the Flames
In his critically acclaimed New York Times Notable Book, Michael Ignatieff tells a story of striking contemporary relevance that has drawn comparisons to the novels of Graham Greene and Robert Ston …
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€12.99
Michael Ignatieff: Sangre y pertenencia
De manera inesperada, el fin de la guerra fría trajo consigo el resurgir del nacionalismo, una ideología romántica que parecía superada. Para poder vivir de cerca este fenómeno y tratar de …
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€4.99
Michael Ignatieff: Fire and Ashes
Renowned author and former Liberal Party of Canada leader Michael Ignatieff delivers a stirring meditation on contemporary politics and the lessons he learned in defeat. Candid and utterly …
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€31.38
Michael Ignatieff: Fire and Ashes
In 2005 Michael Ignatieff left Harvard to lead Canada’s Liberal Party and by 2008 was poised to become Prime Minister. It never happened. He describes what he learned from his bruising defeat about …
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€23.65
Michael Ignatieff: Rights Revolution
Since the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, human rights have become the dominant language of the public good around the globe. Nowhere is this more apparent than in …
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€25.38
Michael Ignatieff & Stefan Roch: Academic Freedom
Academic freedom-the institutional autonomy of scientific, research and teaching institutions, and the freedom of individual scholars and researchers to pursue controversial research and publish …
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€22.41
Michael Ignatieff & Stefan Roch: Rethinking Open Society
The key values of the Open Society – freedom, justice, tolerance, democracy, and respect for knowledge – are increasingly under threat in today’s world. As an effort to uphold those values, this …
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€33.62
Michael Ignatieff: Empire Lite
In Empire Lite, Michael Ignatieff explores both sides of what he sees as a new global empire – the imperial and the humanitarian – and argues that the international community has failed to engage …
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€10.99
Jillian Edelstein: Truth And Lies
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established to investigate more than thirty years of human rights violations under apartheid. Jillian Edelstein returned to her native South Africa to …
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€35.95
Michael Ignatieff: Albumul rusesc
Albumul rusesc ne poartă înapoi în timp de-a lungul a cinci generații ale unei familii ruse, până în 1815. După ce a citit jurnale ale rudelor sale, a privit îndelung fotografii dintr-un vechi album …
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€7.31
Michael Ignatieff: True Patriot Love
In 1872, the author’s great-grandfather George Monro Grant set out with Sandford Fleming to map out the railway line that would link Canada ocean to ocean. Michael Ignatieff recreates his journey, …
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€44.92
Henry Hardy: The Book of Isaiah: Personal Impressions of Isaiah Berlin
This collection of pen-portraits of the renowned public intellectual Isaiah Berlin, published to mark the centenary of his birth, brings him vividly to life from many vantage-points: essential readin …
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€27.99
Henry Hardy: The Book of Isaiah: Personal Impressions of Isaiah Berlin
Isaiah Berlin was born a century ago. One of the most celebrated British thinkers of the twentieth century, he was a tireless champion of freedom and diversity against control and conformity. His …
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€23.99
Michael Ignatieff: Über den Trost
Wenn wir einen geliebten Menschen verlieren, Verluste oder Schicksalsschläge erleiden, suchen wir nach Trost. Gesucht wird Trost heute immer weniger in religiösen Institutionen und politischen …
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€19.99
Andrei S. Markovits: Passport as Home
A Scholar’s Quest for Home and Identity Experience the remarkable story of a Romanian-born, Hungarian-speaking Jewish professor. From Vienna to Columbia and Harvard, he navigates a life marked by …
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€20.09
Marla Stone & Beatrice de Graaf: Als die Demokratie starb
Die Machtergreifung der Nationalsozialisten im Januar 1933 ist ein Schlüsselereignis der Weltgeschichte. Die rasche Konsolidierung der Macht durch Hitler und die Beseitigung der Demokratie praktisch …
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€16.99
Marla Stone & Beatrice de Graaf: Als die Demokratie starb
Die Machtergreifung der Nationalsozialisten im Januar 1933 ist ein Schlüsselereignis der Weltgeschichte. Die rasche Konsolidierung der Macht durch Hitler und die Beseitigung der Demokratie praktisch …
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€16.99
Andrei S. Markovits: Der Pass mein Zuhause
Andrei S. Markovits legt mit diesem Buch die bewegte Autobiografie eines jüdischen Intellektuellen in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts vor, geprägt von vielfältigen Orten, Sprachen und …
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€18.00
Michael Ignatieff: Despre consolare
O explorare profundă a literaturii și artei consolării — de la Cartea lui Iov și Psalmi la Albert Camus, Primo Levi, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross sau mișcarea hospice. Când suferim pierderi sau asistăm la o …
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€7.85
Michael Ignatieff: The Russian Album
Reissue of this sweeping, poignant account of generations of the author’s Russian family: a story of revolution, exile and the search for roots
‘A vividly fascinating account by a gifted writer who …
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€9.59
Michael Ignatieff: Isaiah Berlin
Revised and updated reissue of an enthralling, intimate biography of Isaiah Berlin, major intellectual figure and remarkable witness to the crises of the twentieth century
‘Reading …
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€10.79
Michael Ignatieff: The Needs of Strangers
Reissue of a profound exploration of the concept of human need by the esteemed author of On Consolation
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'Michael Ignatieff writes an urgent prose… he will convince people, …
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€9.59
Michael Ignatieff: Blood & Belonging
Reissue of an incisive exploration of the many faces of modern nationalism by the esteemed author of On Consolation
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'An immensely impressive meditation on the post-Cold War …
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€9.59
Michael Ignatieff & Stefan Roch: Rethinking Open Society
The key values of the Open Society – freedom, justice, tolerance, democracy, and respect for knowledge – are increasingly under threat in today’s world. As an effort to uphold those values, this …
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€33.63
