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After Paradiseby Michael IgnatieffISBN 0099771713 (0-09-977171-3)
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Asyaby Michael IgnatieffISBN 0099435616 (0-09-943561-6)
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Blood and Belongingby Michael IgnatieffISBN 0143054686 (0-14-305468-6)
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Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalismby Michael IgnatieffISBN 0140232621 (0-14-023262-1)
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Charlie Johnson in the Flamesby Michael IgnatieffISBN 0143015966 (0-14-301596-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charlie Johnson in the Flames'Book summary:This short, intense novel tells the story of Charlie Johnson, a war correspondent working in the Balkans during the recent conflict there. Charlie, hardened to the realities of war but not yet insensitive to the human beings experiencing daily trauma, is accompanied by his cameraman and best friend, Jacek, a melancholy, reliable Pole. The story focuses on a single event and its aftermath. While hiding in a contested village, Charlie sees a peasant woman set alight and tries to put the fire out with his bare hands. After his recovery, he grows obsessed with his memory of the woman, who was rescued by helicopter but eventually died. He returns to the Balkan danger zones to hunt down the high-ranked soldier who murdered her, not to kill him but to simply ask, "Why?"
Ignatieff, an internationally known Canadian journalist who has examined the Balkan war in such nonfiction books as Virtual War, places the reader in burned-out villages and tense, ugly towns with uncanny clarity. An old rundown hotel has "Third Reich corridors, curving, carpeted, high-ceilinged and dim." The Balkans at war are a haunting and dangerous place, which makes Charlie's return there difficult to understand, even for him, yet entirely believable. As Jacek says, "We suffer from too much experience," and Charlie, whose life feels empty and undirected, hungers for answers. All the characters, including the locals, Charlie's burdened wife, and Etta, his lover from the home office in London, leap off the page into reality. This is a highly filmic work, disturbing, engaged, utterly convincing. --Mark Frutkin [via]
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Empire Liteby Michael IgnatieffISBN 0143054627 (0-14-305462-7)
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Empire Lite: Nation-Building in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistanby Michael IgnatieffISBN 0143014919 (0-14-301491-9)
Softcover, Penguin Canada
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Isaiah Berlinby Michael IgnatieffISBN 0143054635 (0-14-305463-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Isaiah Berlin'Book summary:Russian by birth, Jewish by descent, English by choice, Isaiah Berlin (1909-97) knit together three identities into a cosmopolitan sensibility that informed his contributions as one of the 20th century's most influential and important intellectuals. Based on his experiences as a child during the Russian Revolution and his friendships with such beleaguered writers as Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova, Berlin affirmed the superiority of individual freedom and judgment to Marxist totalitarianism. But he made fellow liberals uncomfortable with his unwelcome reminders that their ideals--liberty, equality, social justice--inevitably conflicted and required painful tradeoffs. London-based journalist Michael Ignatieff, who spent 10 years interviewing Berlin before his death, adeptly captures an appealing man: lighthearted, spontaneous, a brilliant conversationalist and lecturer (one of Oxford University's most popular professors), able to savor private happiness despite an essentially tragic view of political life. Ignatieff admires Berlin's views without accepting them uncritically; similarly, he acknowledges personal failings while appreciating the serenity Berlin achieved against considerable odds. This lucidly written, thoughtfully argued work is a model of the well-balanced biography, carefully evaluating the complex interplay of character and conviction in one remarkable individual. --Wendy Smith [via]
A Just Measure of Pain: The Penitentiary in the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850by Michael IgnatieffISBN 0140552472 (0-14-055247-2)
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Lesser Evilby Michael IgnatieffISBN 0143054643 (0-14-305464-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lesser Evil'Book summary:The Lesser Evil, which comprises Michael Ignatieff's six essays based on his 2003 Gifford Lectures, is a useful introduction to and assessment of liberal political thought and behaviour in the face of opponents who don't play by the rules. The consequences to the state of engaging with its enemy outside the laws of war are perilously uncertain, Ignatieff admits, but they have to be faced and accepted. Ignatieff certainly tries to face them. If terrorists are not stopped, he argues, the living conditions inside the besieged state would become unrecognizable. Liberal regard for individual rights would disappear. The carnivore must overrule the herbivore, therefore, even in the liberal state and especially when that state is attacked. Ignatieff uses these shocking nouns to contrast realpolitik with civil libertarianism in this context. However, "If the automatic response to mass casualty terrorism is to strengthen secret government, it is the wrong response. The right one is to strengthen open government."
Ignatieff places his faith in the state ultimately in its citizens' duty to persuade, even more than in their armed force. Terror's every provocation is unique, though, and none can be reacted to solely according to precedent. Ignatieff was an apologist for the invasion of Iraq, until shortly before the Abu Ghraib revelations. He then reversed his stance, admitting that "intentions do shape consequences." The record of this distortion and correction of his political will is an excellent example of what he calls in The Lesser Evil the "enormous moral hazard" to which democracies and their citizens expose themselves when countering terrorists. --Ted Whittaker [via]
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Lesser Evil: Political Ethics In An Age Of Terrorby Michael IgnatieffISBN 0143017357 (0-14-301735-7)
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Moments of Reprieveby Primo Levi, Ruth Feldman, Michael IgnatieffISBN 0141186976 (0-14-118697-6)
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The Needs of Strangersby Michael IgnatieffISBN 0140086811 (0-14-008681-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Needs of Strangers'Book summary:What do we need in order to survive?[via]
Whose needs do we have a right to speak for?
Which needs can be satisfied through political actions, and which cannot?To answer these vital questions, Michael Ignatieff returns to the ancient languages of religion, art, and tragedyand to important texts by Shakespeare, St. Augustine, and the great writers of the Enlightenment.
Drawing on these sources, he has written an incisive, moving interpretation of community and democracy in a work that not only examines the breakdown of human solidarity but shows how it might be re-created. The Needs of Strangers restores philosophy to its proper place as a guide to the art of being human.
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The Russian Albumby Michael IgnatieffISBN 0143054651 (0-14-305465-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Russian Album'Book summary:Winner of the Heineman Prize and the Governor General's Award for nonfiction, Michael Ignatieff's The Russian Album is a sumptuous exploration of four generations of the aristocratic Ignatieff family. In particular, Ignatieff focuses on the lives of his paternal grandparents, Princess Natasha Mestchersky and Count Paul Ignatieff, minister of education under Nicholas II, who resigned his post on the eve of the Bolshevik Revolution and was saved from the ensuing bloodshed by his students.
The Russian Album is at once a rich and loving personal history of an extraordinary family and a chronicle of that family's connection with the history of imperial Russia. It details the life of the Ignatieffs in Czarist Russia as well as their escape after the Russian Revolution in 1917, their sojourn in London and Paris and their eventual journey to Canada. Ignatieff uses family photographs and excerpts from diaries and letters to give readers a taste of the life that his ancestors lived, but The Russian Album isn't a celebration of Czarist Russia as much as an exploration of the strength of family ties, and one of the most touching moments of the book focuses on Ignatieff's conversation with his grandfather's remaining sons about their father and their memories of him. In the final reckoning, it is Ignatieff's attention to the Ignatieff past, rather than his own present, that makes the book such a powerful reading experience. --Jeffrey Canton [via]
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Scar Tissueby Michael IgnatieffISBN 0099308118 (0-09-930811-8)
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The Trial of Richard Wagnerby Michael IgnatieffISBN 0297842609 (0-297-84260-9)
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Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyondby Michael IgnatieffISBN 0141000341 (0-14-100034-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond'Book summary:On March 24, 1999, after talks at the French chateau of Rambouillet and further negotiations in Paris failed to produce an agreement between Kosovar and Serbian leaders, NATO commenced air strikes against Serbia. The Kosovo war would last 78 days. According to Michael Ignatieff, the war in Kosovo broke new ground. For those killed in the air strikes and the Kosovar Albanians murdered by Serbian police and paramilitaries, the war was real; yet it was "virtual" for the citizens of the NATO nations, who became spectators to events as "remote from their essential concerns as a football game." NATO combatants (who suffered no casualties) experienced the war as "split-second decisions made through the lens of a gun camera or over a video conferencing system." They rarely saw those they killed. Kosovo was a virtual war also in the political and legal sense, and in Virtual War Ignatieff explores the political and moral implications of what happens when war ceases to be fully real--when technological mastery removes death from the equation on one side.
Five characters figure prominently in Ignatieff's narrative of the war in Kosovo and its aftermath: Richard Holbrooke, the Clinton administration's special envoy for the Balkans; Wesley Clark, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe; Louise Arbour, prosecutor of the War Crimes Tribunal; Robert Skidelsky, independent member of the British House of Lords and critic of the war; and Aleksa Djilas, Yugoslav opponent of the bombing campaign. Though Ignatieff supports the military intervention, his encounters with these figures, particularly the opponents of the war, put his convictions to the test. The differing viewponts lend a sense of balance and evenhandedness in what is ultimately a deeply moral work. "Virtual reality is seductive," Ignatieff writes. "We see ourselves as noble warriors and our enemies as despicable tyrants. We see a war as a surgical scalpel and not a bloodstained sword. In so doing we mis-describe ourselves as we mis-describe the instruments of death. We need to stay away from such fables of self-righteous invulnerability. Only then can we get our hands dirty. Only then can we do what is right." --Svenja Soldovieri [via]
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The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscienceby Michael IgnatieffISBN 0099577410 (0-09-957741-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Warrior's Honor : Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience'Book summary:In his 1986 book The Needs of Strangers, Michael Ignatieff studied the moral obligations that are established between strangers within a nation state. In the 1990s, after touring the volatile regions of the former Yugoslavia, Central Africa, and Afghanistan, where ethnic conflict has become a way of life, he expanded the scope of his topic to consider obligations "beyond our tribe, beyond our nation, family, intimate network." The result is The Warrior's Honour, a riveting piece of philosophical reportage that examines the post-imperialist, post-Holocaust "narrative of compassion" that shapes the modern conscience and the modern world by compelling "zones of safety" to intervene in "zones of danger," no matter how far away they may be.
Ignatieff poses several searching questions in these five essays, the answers to which are rarely unambiguous. What produces ethnic fragmentation and war? Does intervention in ethnic conflicts, to which the universal human rights culture that evolved after World War II obligates us, improve or exacerbate the situation there? How deep is our commitment in such zones of danger, mediated as the intervention often is by political expediency or the capriciousness of television's quest for the next epic story of famine or mass slaughter? Once we have gotten involved, what are we faced with--in particular in states where the chains of command, which can restrain violence from turning into savagery and genocide, are disintegrating? Has the fact that those who are making wars are not necessarily career soldiers, or "warriors," but "irregulars," compromised the legitimacy of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and hence the authority of the UN's institutions in regions of ethnic strife? In other words, what is the best course of action to take in a state where human rights, even the very notion of "warrior's honour," are meaningless? How does ethnic war abroad affect our thinking about the possibility of people of diverse ethnicities being able to coexist in harmony at home? And, finally, can the war crimes tribunals and the Truth and Reconciliation commissions that have worked to heal Germany and South Africa help the former Yugoslavia emerge from the condition of war and savagery, given that its inhabitants have fought each other for generations?
With boundless compassion and uncompromising intelligence, Ignatieff analyzes and explains the ethical complexities and the dark realities at the heart of some of the worst ethnic conflicts of the 1990s. As he provides a concise history of liberal institutions like the Red Cross and the UN High Commission for Refugees, showing how their reach and good work have evolved over the course of the 20th century, he also reveals the limits of their philosophy of "liberal internationalism." He probes, for example, the accommodations made by the UN Secretary General to the leader of the Angolan guerilla army, who was responsible in large measure for the carnage there at the end of the 1990's. He rails about the UN's mishandling of Bosnia in 1995, which effectively turned a safe haven into a trap and a tomb for one city's inhabitants. And he presents the pros and cons of the Red Cross's code of neutrality in war, where the line between compassion and collaboration can be very fine.
The Warrior's Honour looks critically at our well-intentioned interventions in the lives of others, and at the moral minefield of ethnic warfare. It is a must-read book in these very troubled times. --Diana Kuprel [via]
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Warriors Honourby Michael IgnatieffISBN 0143054619 (0-14-305461-9)
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