Michael Ignatieff
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 371641 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michael Ignatieff |
| NOMBRES | Michael |
| APELLIDO | Ignatieff |
| FIRMA | IGNATIEFF M |
| AFILIACIONES | Writer and journalist. He is currently working on a biography of Isaiah Berlin |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-7302-3549 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 49 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 344 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1978 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
The Geopolitics of Academic Freedom
This essay examines why academic freedom has become a defining issue in the geostrategic competition between liberal democracies and their authoritarian challengers. The growing strategic rivalry between the United States and China is threatening to disrupt, even destroy, academic interchange between liberal and authoritarian societies. At the same time, populist right-wing leaders in Western democracies are attacking university autonomy, as part…
When Democracy Is on the Ballot
Democratic self-rule is an unending argument about what democracy is. In normal times, democracy reproduces its legitimacy by its routine operation. In times of political crisis, however, the defining issue of an election can become the commitment of adversaries to the rules of the democratic game. At such times, polarization can become lethal to the very system that both sides say they are committed to maintaining. All democracies could use seri…
Exile as Metaphor
Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor argues that illnesses like cancer are harder to endure because of the metaphors of dread that accompany them. Exiles experience a similar phenomenon. The real dimensions of the experience can be made harder by metaphors of dispossession and loss. Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory is a profound reflection on-and rebellion against-the metaphors that defined the Russian exile experience after 1917. This essay discus…
The Politics of Enemies
Democracy's meaning has always been contested. The problem with substantive definitions of democracy is that democrats do not agree on what it is or what it should be. Democracy itself is not just an unruly contest for power, but also the site of an ongoing debate about what democracy is or should be. Yet letting that struggle become a battle between existential foes risks upending the whole democratic project
The Responsibility to Protect in a Changing World Order
This introduction to the roundtable “The Responsibility to Protect in a Changing World Order: Twenty Years since Its Inception” argues that the geostrategic configuration that made the responsibility to protect (RtoP) possible has changed beyond recognition in the twenty years since its inception
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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 volume brings together some of the key political, social and economic thinkers of our time to re-examine the Open Society closely in terms of its history, its achievements and failures, and its future prospects. Based on the lecture series Rethinking Open…
The Ordinary Virtues
During a 3-year, 8-nation journey, Michael Ignatieff found that while human rights is the language of states and liberal elites, the moral language that resonates with most people is that of everyday virtues: tolerance, forgiveness, trust, and resilience. These ordinary virtues are the moral system of global cities and obscure shantytowns alike
Ordinary Virtues
Human Rights, Global Ethics, and the Ordinary Virtues
In a 1958 speech at the United Nations, Eleanor Roosevelt took stock of the progress that human rights had made since the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ten years before. Mrs. Roosevelt had chaired the UN committee that drafted the Universal Declaration and had hoped that, in time, it would become “the international Magna Carta of all men everywhere.” Her answer to the question of how to measure human rights progress ha…
The Refugee as Invasive Other
A liberal politics is, in moral principle at least, a universalist politics: a politics that assumes that there is no "other"; there is only "us," all entitled to equal treatment. This ideal inspired the 1951 Refugee Convention, which now faces a crisis of consent in Western societies because of the sheer numbers of people claiming refugee protection. Public opinion is also turning against the universalist premise. Citizens ask why they should ex…
The Hedgehog and the Fox
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 compromise and the necessity of bridging differences in a pluralist society. A reflective, compelling account of modern politics as it really is
Fire and ashes
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 falter--to become Canada's next Prime Minister. It never happened. Today, after a bruising electoral defeat, Ignatieff is back where he started, writing and teaching what he learned. What did he take…
Reimagining a Global Ethic
“Reimagining a global ethic” is a project worthy of Andrew Carnegie and of the Carnegie Council's upcoming commemoration of his founding gift in 1914. As a collaborative research project stretching forward over the next three years, it ought to be integrative and reconciliatory: that is, it must try to understand the globalization of ethics that has accompanied the globalization of commerce and communications and to figure out what ethical values…
Blood and belonging
Making States Work
The United Nations University is an organ of the United Nations established by the General Assembly in 1972 to be an international community of scholars engaged in research, advanced training, and the dissemination of knowledge related to the pressing global problems of human survival, development, and welfare.Its activities focus mainly on the areas of peace and governance, environment and sustainable development, and science and technology in r…
American Exceptionalism and Human Rights
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 temptations of ruthlessness can be overwhelming. But we are pulled in the other direction, too, by the anxiety that a violent response to violence makes us morally indistinguishable from our enemies. There is perhaps no greater political challenge today than t…
The Lesser Evil
The Lesser Evil
1. Political Ethics in an Age of Terror 2. The Strength of the Weak 3. The Weakness of the Strong 4. The Ethics of Emergency 5. The Temptations of Nihilism 6. The Usefulness of Ethics
The Lesser Evil
The Seductiveness of Moral Disgust
Michael Ignatieff The Seductiveness of Moral Disgust HEART OF DARKNESS IN HEART OF DARKNESS, CONRAD OBSERVED THAT IMPERIALISM , WHEN looked at closely, is not a pretty thing. “What redeems it is the idea only.” The ferocious rapacity of Kurtz’s search for ivory is ennobled in his own eyes by his plans to bring civilization to the savages. In the end, of course, this idea redeems nothing at all. When Marlow finds Kurtz, at the final bend o f the r…
The Russian Album
With ties to Tsar Nicholas II and Catherine the Great, writer and historian Michael Ignatieff traces his family's rise to power and influence, and then sweeps readers into the avalanche of revolution, civil war, and exile that stripped his forefathers of their wealth, position, and nearly their lives
Michael Cholbi, Grief
Blood and belonging
The Lesser Evil
State, Civil Society, and Total Institutions
Three books published during the seventies, by Michel Foucault, Michael Ignatieff, and David Rothman, greatly revised the history of the penitentiary. Contrary to the received wisdom which located the penitentiary's origin in the altruism of Quakers and other humanitarian reformers, and portrayed it as a humane advance from the squalid jails and workhouses, corporal and capital punishment, and transportation that preceded it, the revisionist acco…
The Lesser Evil
1. Political Ethics in an Age of Terror 2. The Strength of the Weak 3. The Weakness of the Strong 4. The Ethics of Emergency 5. The Temptations of Nihilism 6. The Usefulness of Ethics
American Exceptionalism and Human Rights
Making States Work
The United Nations University is an organ of the United Nations established by the General Assembly in 1972 to be an international community of scholars engaged in research, advanced training, and the dissemination of knowledge related to the pressing global problems of human survival, development, and welfare.Its activities focus mainly on the areas of peace and governance, environment and sustainable development, and science and technology in r…
Citizenship and Moral Narcissism
The Geopolitics of Academic Freedom
This essay examines why academic freedom has become a defining issue in the geostrategic competition between liberal democracies and their authoritarian challengers. The growing strategic rivalry between the United States and China is threatening to disrupt, even destroy, academic interchange between liberal and authoritarian societies. At the same time, populist right-wing leaders in Western democracies are attacking university autonomy, as part…
On Civil Society
Reimagining a Global Ethic
“Reimagining a global ethic” is a project worthy of Andrew Carnegie and of the Carnegie Council's upcoming commemoration of his founding gift in 1914. As a collaborative research project stretching forward over the next three years, it ought to be integrative and reconciliatory: that is, it must try to understand the globalization of ethics that has accompanied the globalization of commerce and communications and to figure out what ethical values…
The Attack on Human Rights
The Responsibility to Protect in a Changing World Order
This introduction to the roundtable “The Responsibility to Protect in a Changing World Order: Twenty Years since Its Inception” argues that the geostrategic configuration that made the responsibility to protect (RtoP) possible has changed beyond recognition in the twenty years since its inception
Human Rights, the Laws of War, and Terrorism
I THE two terms—human rights and terror—look like a simple antithesis: human rights good, terror bad. My thesis is that the antithesis is not so simple. Of course, human rights and terror stand opposed to each other. Terrorist acts violate the right to life, along with many other rights. But equally, human rights—notably the right to self-determination—have constituted a major justification for the resort to political violence, including acts of …
Soviet War Memorials
As you cross the Dnieper river bridge into Kiev, the first thing you see looming up on the tree-lined bluffs opposite is a gigantic silver statue, a frowning Amazon in metal robes brandishing a huge sword in one hand and a shield in the other. She is staggeringly large at least the size of the Statue of Liberty and since she is made of glistening aluminium, it is as if she were perspiring with martial effort. She is a monument to the Great Patrio…
Human Rights, Global Ethics, and the Ordinary Virtues
In a 1958 speech at the United Nations, Eleanor Roosevelt took stock of the progress that human rights had made since the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ten years before. Mrs. Roosevelt had chaired the UN committee that drafted the Universal Declaration and had hoped that, in time, it would become “the international Magna Carta of all men everywhere.” Her answer to the question of how to measure human rights progress ha…
Blood and Belonging
With The Warrior's Honor and Virtual War, Blood & Belonging forms part of the acclaimed trilogy by Michael Ignatieff on the face of modern conflict. In 1993 Michael Ignatieff set out on a journey to the former Yugoslavia, the Ukraine, Germany, Quebec, Kurdistan and Northern Ireland in order to explore the many faces of modern nationalism at its worst. Modern nationalism is a language of blood: a call to arms that can end in the horror of ethnic c…
The Politics of Enemies
Democracy's meaning has always been contested. The problem with substantive definitions of democracy is that democrats do not agree on what it is or what it should be. Democracy itself is not just an unruly contest for power, but also the site of an ongoing debate about what democracy is or should be. Yet letting that struggle become a battle between existential foes risks upending the whole democratic project
The Refugee as Invasive Other
A liberal politics is, in moral principle at least, a universalist politics: a politics that assumes that there is no "other"; there is only "us," all entitled to equal treatment. This ideal inspired the 1951 Refugee Convention, which now faces a crisis of consent in Western societies because of the sheer numbers of people claiming refugee protection. Public opinion is also turning against the universalist premise. Citizens ask why they should ex…
Family Album
Journal Article Family Album Get access Michael Ignatieff Michael Ignatieff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 14, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1982, Pages 92–105, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/14.1.92 Published: 01 October 1982
A Just Measure of Pain
A Just Measure of Pain
State, Civil Society, and Total Institutions
Three books published during the seventies, by Michel Foucault, Michael Ignatieff, and David Rothman, greatly revised the history of the penitentiary. Contrary to the received wisdom which located the penitentiary's origin in the altruism of Quakers and other humanitarian reformers, and portrayed it as a humane advance from the squalid jails and workhouses, corporal and capital punishment, and transportation that preceded it, the revisionist acco…
Family Album
Journal Article Family Album Get access Michael Ignatieff Michael Ignatieff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 14, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1982, Pages 92–105, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/14.1.92 Published: 01 October 1982
Wealth and Virtue
Wealth and Virtue reassesses the remarkable contribution of the Scottish Enlightenment to the formation of modern economics and to theories of capitalism. Its unique range indicates the scope of the Scottish intellectual achievement of the eighteenth century and explores the process by which the boundaries between economic thought, jurisprudence, moral philosophy and theoretical history came to be established. Dealing not only with major figures …
Total Institutions and Working Classes
Total Institutions and Working Classes: A Review Essay Get access PATRICIA O'BRIENThe Promise of Punishment: Prisons in Nineteenth CenturyFrance Princeton University Press, 1982 M. A. CROWTHERThe Workhouse System, 1834-1929: the History of an English Social Institution Batsford Academic, 1981 MICHELLE PERROT (ed.) L'Impossible Prison: Recherche, sur le systeme penitentiaire au XIXe siecle Seuil, 1980 SEAN McCONVlLLEA History of English Prison Adm…
The Science of a Legislator
Soviet War Memorials
As you cross the Dnieper river bridge into Kiev, the first thing you see looming up on the tree-lined bluffs opposite is a gigantic silver statue, a frowning Amazon in metal robes brandishing a huge sword in one hand and a shield in the other. She is staggeringly large at least the size of the Statue of Liberty and since she is made of glistening aluminium, it is as if she were perspiring with martial effort. She is a monument to the Great Patrio…
Wealth and Virtue
12 TMS I.i.2.1.Hume was uneasy about Smith's treatment of this central point and regretted that he had not ' more particularly and fully prov'd that all kinds of Sympathy are necessarily Agreeable [my italics].This is the Hinge of your
Ethics and Economics in Search of a Common Language
Book reviewed in this article: The Needs of Strangers. By Michael Ignatieff. The Health Economy. By Victor Fuchs. Just Health Care. By Norman Daniels
Citizenship and Moral Narcissism
Blood and Belonging
With The Warrior's Honor and Virtual War, Blood & Belonging forms part of the acclaimed trilogy by Michael Ignatieff on the face of modern conflict. In 1993 Michael Ignatieff set out on a journey to the former Yugoslavia, the Ukraine, Germany, Quebec, Kurdistan and Northern Ireland in order to explore the many faces of modern nationalism at its worst. Modern nationalism is a language of blood: a call to arms that can end in the horror of ethnic c…
On Civil Society
Articles of faith
The Warrior's Honor
Ignatieff charts the rise of the new moral interventionists who believe that other people's misery concerns us all, introduces the new ethnic warriors who have escalated post-modern war to an unprecedented level of savagery and draws conclusions about the ambiguous ethics of engagement and the limited force of moral justice in a world of war
Retrogressive Little Wars
Isaiah Berlin
The Rights Revolution
Since the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, rights have become the dominant language of the public good around the globe. In Canada, rights have become the trump card in every argument from family life to Parliament Hill, but the notorious fights for aboriginal rights and for the linguistic heritage of French-speaking Canadians have steered Canada into a full-blown rights revolution. This revolution is not only de…
Sorting out the Balkans
Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry
Introduction by Amy Gutmann vii HUMAN RIGHTS AS POLITICS AND IDOLATRY by Michael Ignatieff Human Rights as Politics 3 Human Rights as Idolatry 53 COMMENTS Grounding Human Rights by K. Anthony Appiah 101 Debates with the PTA and Others by David A. Hollinger 117 The Moral Imagination and Human Rights by Thomas W. Laqueur 127 Relativism and Religion by Diane F. Orentlicher 141 RESPONSE TO COMMENTATORS by Michael Ignatieff Dignity and Agency 161 Cont…
The Rights Revolution
Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry
The Attack on Human Rights
Human Rights, the Laws of War, and Terrorism
I THE two terms—human rights and terror—look like a simple antithesis: human rights good, terror bad. My thesis is that the antithesis is not so simple. Of course, human rights and terror stand opposed to each other. Terrorist acts violate the right to life, along with many other rights. But equally, human rights—notably the right to self-determination—have constituted a major justification for the resort to political violence, including acts of …
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 temptations of ruthlessness can be overwhelming. But we are pulled in the other direction, too, by the anxiety that a violent response to violence makes us morally indistinguishable from our enemies. There is perhaps no greater political challenge today than t…
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