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    Berlin in Autumn: The Philosopher in Old Age
    In Henry Hardy (ed.), The book of Isaiah: personal impressions of Isaiah Berlin, In Association With Wolfson College. pp. 176-185. 2009.
  • The Tanner lectures on human values (edited book)
    with William G. Bowen, Craig J. Calhoun, F. M. Kamm, Claude Lanzmann, Robert Post, Michael J. Sandel, and Mark Matheson
    The University of Utah Press. 2014.
    Volume 39 of the Tanner Lectures on Human Values includes lectures initially scheduled during the academic year 2019-2020. Owing to the global coronavirus pandemic, some were delivered at a later date. The Tanner Lectures are published in an annual volume. In addition to permanent lectures at nine universities, the Tanner Lectures on Human Values funds special one-time lectures at selected higher educational institutions in the United States and around the world.
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    Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry
    with Kwame Anthony Appiah, David A. Hollinger, Thomas W. Laqueur, and Diane F. Orentlicher
    Princeton University Press. 2001.
    "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.
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    Notes
    In The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World, Harvard University Press. pp. 225-250. 2017.
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    Index
    In The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World, Harvard University Press. pp. 255-264. 2017.
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    Acknowledgments
    In The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World, Harvard University Press. pp. 251-254. 2017.
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    "Cover " -- "Title Page " -- "Copyright " -- "Dedication" -- "Contents" -- "Introduction: Moral Globalization and Its Discontents" -- "1. Jackson Heights, New York: Diversity Plaza" -- "2. Los Angeles: The Moral Operating Systems of Global Cities" -- "3. Rio de Janeiro: Order, Corruption, and Public Trust" -- "4. Bosnia: War and Reconciliation" -- "5. Myanmar: The Politics of Moral Narrative" -- "6. Fukushima: Resilience and the Unimaginable" -- "7. South Africa: After the Rainbow" -- "Conclusio…Read more
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    Just Health Care (review)
    with Larry R. Churchill, Victor Fuchs, and Norman Daniels
    Hastings Center Report 17 (2): 39. 1987.
    Book reviewed in this article: The Needs of Strangers. By Michael Ignatieff. The Health Economy. By Victor Fuchs. Just Health Care. By Norman Daniels.
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    The seductiveness of moral disgust
    Social Research: An International Quarterly 62 (1). 1995.
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    Human Rights, Global Ethics, and the Ordinary Virtues
    Ethics and International Affairs 31 (1): 3-16. 2017.
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    The seductiveness of moral disgust
    Social Research: An International Quarterly 71 (3): 549-568. 2004.
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    Isaiah Berlin: A Life
    Metropolitan Books. 1998.
    A biography of the Soviet-born British philosopher describes how he was shaped by politics and culture of his time, and his contributions to contemporary liberal philosophy.
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    The lesser evil: political ethics in an age of terror
    Edinburgh University Press. 2004.
    In the age of terrorism, the temptations of ruthlessness can be overwhelming. Yet a violent response to violence arguably makes us morally indistinguishable from our enemies. There is perhaps no greater political challenge today than trying to win the war against terror without losing our democratic souls. Michael Ignatieff confronts this challenge head-on, with the combination of hard-headed idealism, historical sensitivity and political judgement that has made him one of the most influential v…Read more
  • De macht van de poezie
    Nexus 15. 1996.
    De totalitaire machten van de twintigste eeuw wilden zich meester maken van de eeuwige nagedachtenis. Daarom moest zelfs de herinnering aan de Sowjet-terreur en aan de genocide van Nazi-Duitsland worden uitgewist. De dichters waren de enigen, die zich hiertegen met succes hebben weten te verzetten. In Rusland was het Nadjezda Mandelstam die het verboden oeuvre van haar omgebrachte man Osip uit het hoofd leerde en daarmee bewaarde en hetzelfde deden Lidya Tsaiowskaja en Anna Achmatowa met hun eig…Read more
  • Understanding Fascism?
    In Isaiah Berlin, Edna Ullmann-Margalit & Avishai Margalit (eds.), Isaiah Berlin: A Celebration, University of Chicago Press. pp. 135--145. 1991.
  • Lof der politiek
    Nexus 58. 2011.
    Loven is het verheerlijken en aanbidden van wat ons bevattingsvermogen en begrip te boven gaat. Dat maakt het een religieuze aangelegenheid: het voorwerp van lof is transcendent, blijvend en troostrijk. Wanneer het over menselijke, imperfecte zaken gaat, zoals de politiek, weten we dat we lof moeten behoeden voor afgoderij. Daarom spreken we in die context in plaats van aanbidding over loven als begrensde rechtvaardiging, als een rationele afweging. In de politiek klinken geen lofzangen. De taal…Read more
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    Wealth and Virtue: The Shaping of Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment (edited book)
    with Istvan Hont
    Cambridge University Press. 1986.
    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 like Hume and Smith, there are also studies of les…Read more
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    The needs of strangers
    Picador USA. 1984.
    This thought provoking 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 Ignatieff writes vividly both about ideas and about the people who tried to live by them—from Augustine to Bosch, from Rosseau to Simone Weil. Incisive and moving, The Needs of Strangers returns philosophy to its proper place, as a guide to the art of being…Read more
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    ‘De popularisering van de hoge cultuur is tegenwoordig de rechtvaardiging van de cultuur als zodanig. Als iets goed is, als iets nobel is, moet het gedeeld worden, en wel zo breed mogelijk. Natuurlijk is de democratisering van de hoge humanistische cultuur in een kapitalistische beschaving problematisch. [...]Toch is het onzin om te veronderstellen dat we een verhevener en humanistischer publieke cultuur zouden hebben als we niet meer zouden proberen de toegang tot ons erfgoed te verbreden. Een …Read more