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Michael Ignatieff

Teoksen Isaiah Berlin: A Life tekijä

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Michael Ignatieff, born in Toronto in 1947. But at the age of 11, Ignatieff was sent to Toronto to attend Upper Canada College as a boarder in 1959. At UCC, Ignatieff was elected a school prefect as Head of Wedd's House, was the captain of the varsity soccer team, and served as editor-in-chief of näytä lisää the school's yearbook. As well, Ignatieff volunteered for the Liberal Party during the 1965 federal election by canvassing the York South riding. He resumed his work for the Liberal Party in 1968, as a national youth organizer and party delegate for the Pierre Elliott Trudeau party leadership campaign. He then went on to continue his education at the University of Toronto and Harvard and Cambridge universities. In 1976, Ignatieff completed his Ph.D in History at Harvard University. He was granted a Cambridge M.A. by incorporation in 1978 on taking up a fellowship at King's College there. Michael Ignatieff has written television programs for the BBC, novels, and works of nonfiction. He has also authored essays and reviews for several publications including The New York Times. From 1990-93, he wrote a weekly column on international affairs for The Observer. His family memoir, The Russian Album, received Canada's Governor General Award in 1988. His second novel, Scar Tissue, was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1993. Other nonfiction works include A Just Measure of Pain, the Penitentiary in the Industrial Revolution and the Warrior's Honor: Ethic War and the Modern Conscience. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän

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Isaiah Berlin: A Life (1998) 427 kappaletta
The Warrior's Honor (1998) 212 kappaletta
Scar Tissue (1993) 207 kappaletta
The Needs of Strangers (1984) 176 kappaletta
Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry (2001) — Tekijä — 176 kappaletta
The Russian Album (1987) 162 kappaletta
Virtual War (2000) 155 kappaletta
Magnum Degrees (1999) 135 kappaletta
Asya (1991) 71 kappaletta
Charlie Johnson in the Flames (2003) 36 kappaletta
Passages : Welcome Home to Canada (2002) 13 kappaletta
Nineteen Nineteen (1985) 10 kappaletta
Troost (2021) 8 kappaletta
Mensenrechten en terreur (2002) 4 kappaletta
Human Rights 1 kappale
Sanal Savas (2000) 1 kappale

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Siili ja kettu : tutkielma Tolstoin historianfilosofiasta (1953) — Esipuhe, eräät painokset; Esipuhe, eräät painokset715 kappaletta
Granta 77: What We Think of America (2002) — Avustaja — 217 kappaletta
Granta 21: The Story-Teller (1987) — Avustaja — 156 kappaletta
Granta 27: Death (1989) — Avustaja — 151 kappaletta
Granta 30: New Europe (1990) — Avustaja — 145 kappaletta
Granta 63: Beasts (1998) — Avustaja — 132 kappaletta
Granta 45: Gazza Agonistes (1993) — Avustaja — 116 kappaletta
The Granta Book of the Family (1995) — Avustaja — 88 kappaletta
Granta 14: Autobiography (1984) — Avustaja — 71 kappaletta
The Best American Magazine Writing 2003 (2003) — Avustaja — 70 kappaletta
The Modern Historiography Reader: Western Sources (2008) — Avustaja — 37 kappaletta
Human Rights in the World Community: Issues and Action (1989) — Avustaja — 31 kappaletta
Isaiah Berlin: A Celebration (1991) — Avustaja — 14 kappaletta

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AnkaraLibrary | Feb 23, 2024 |
The author makes the claim that we don't have to be religious to be consoled by religious texts. This doesn't make any sense, as the way that religious texts console people is through the religious beliefs.... If I don't believe in Jesus, for example, how can I be consoled by the mythology of his sacrifice? It doesn't work that way
 
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EmberMantles | 14 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jan 1, 2024 |
Cuando la vida parece perder su sentido, necesitamos palabras. Cuando sufrimos un duelo, una traición, la soledad o una derrota, buscamos ayuda para recuperar ese sentido. El lenguaje del consuelo fue antaño el gran objeto de estudio de religiosos y filósofos, pero se ha ido desvaneciendo de nuestro vocabulario moderno. Desde el siglo XVI, la humanidad ha tendido a rechazar el alivio proveniente de los textos sagrados para, en su lugar, concentrar su fe en la ciencia, las ideologías y las terapias. Además, como advierte el gran pensador e historiador Michael Ignatieff, "hoy el premio de consolación es el que nadie quiere ganar. Las culturas que persiguen el exito no prestan mucha atención al fracaso… (lisätietoja)
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A report of the author's visits to places where ethnic war has become commonplace.
 
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