Description: One of the most influential intellectuals in the English-speaking world, Michael Ignatieff’s story is generally understood to be that of an ambitious, accomplished progressive politician and writer, whose work and thought fit within an enlightened political tradition valuing human rights and diversity. Here, journalist Derrick O’Keefe argues otherwise. In this scrupulous assessment of Ignatieff’s life and politics, he reveals that Ignatieff’s human rights discourse has served to mask his identification with political and economic elites.
Tracing the course of his career over the last thirty years, from his involvement with the battles between Thatcher and the coal miners in the 1980s to the Balkan Wars of the 1990s, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Israel’s 2009 invasion of Gaza, O’Keefe proposes that Ignatieff and his political tradition have in fact stood in opposition to the extension of democracy and the pursuit of economic equality. Michael Ignatieff: The Lesser Evil? is a timely assessment of the Ignatieff phenomenon, and of what it tells us about the politics of the English-speaking West today.
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Narrative Type: book
Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Book Title: Michael Ignatieff : the Lesser Evil?
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Verso Books
Item Height: 0.5 in
Topic: Cultural Heritage, Health Care Issues, Political
Publication Year: 2011
Genre: Health & Fitness, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 6 Oz
Author: Derrick O'keefe
Item Length: 7.8 in
Item Width: 5.2 in
Book Series: Counterblasts Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
