Ignatieff Michael:
Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry
New Ed
Commentaries by: Kwame Anthony Appiah, Commentaries by: Amy Gutmann
Princeton University Press (United States), 2003
Quality paperback, 216 pagesSize: 216x140 mm
ISBN-13: 9780691114743
ISBN-10: 0691114749
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Michael Ignatieff
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.
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 revolution. Based on the Tanner Lectures that Ignatieff delivered at Princeton University's Center for Human Values in 2000.

