Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry
These essays make a splendid book. Ignatieff's lectures are engaging and vigorous; they also combine some rather striking ideas with savvy perceptions about actual domestic and international politics. They spark lively and distinctive discussion among the distinguished respondents. Ignatieff's response to them is also vibrant. Ignatieff presents a sharp and vital argument for human rights that can be reconciled with state sovereignty, that can defend against charges of imperialism without caving in to the moral relativism bandwagon, and that can navigate reciprocal respect between people and between nations.--Martha Minow, Harvard UniversityT…
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Weitere Autoren: Gutmann, Amy (Hrsg.) / Appiah, Kwame Anthony (Komment.)
- ISBN: 978-0-691-11474-3
- EAN: 9780691114743
- Produktnummer: 8434947
- Verlag: Princeton Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 187 S.
- Masse: H21.4 cm x B13.9 cm x D1.4 cm 258 g
- Gewicht: 258
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Michael Ignatieff, a writer, historian, and broadcaster, is Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University. His books include Isaiah Berlin: A Life, Blood and Belonging, The Warrior's Honor, and The Needs of Strangers. His novel Scar Tissue was nominated for the Booker Prize, and his book The Russian Album, A Family Memoir won Canada's Governor General's Award and the Heinemann Prize of Britain's Royal Society of Literature.
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