Balthus, Passage du commerce - Saint André

Forum Ignatieff

a cura di Leonardo Marchettoni

The Jura Gentium centre has set up a many-voiced discussion page about a significant theoretical text by Michael Ignatieff: Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2001).

Ignatieff's book raises some very relevant theoretical and political questions: what role do human rights play in international politics? What is their foundation? If human rights are the product of a particular political philosophical tradition, can we consider them to be universal? Is military intervention to end gross violations of rights justified?

Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry tries to answer these questions. Ignatieff takes a clear stand about them. In this forum we will try and critically discuss his proposals and the problems at stake.

In occasione della traduzione italiana del volume di Michael Ignatieff, Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2001), con il titolo Una ragionevole apologia dei diritti umani (Feltrinelli, Milano, 2003), il Centro Studi Jura Gentium ha deciso di organizzare una pagina di discussione a più voci intorno a questo significativo testo teorico.

Il libro di Ignatieff solleva alcune questioni di grande rilevanza teorica e politica: qual è il ruolo dei diritti umani nella politica internazionale? Qual è il fondamento dei diritti? Dal momento che i diritti umani sono il prodotto di una particolare tradizione filosofica e politica, possono essere considerati universali? È giusto intervenire militarmente per porre fine alle più gravi violazioni dei diritti?

Una ragionevole apologia dei diritti umani cerca di rispondere a questi interrogativi. Merito di Ignatieff è di aver preso posizione con estrema chiarezza intorno a queste questioni. In questo spazio cercheremo di discutere criticamente le proposte di Ignatieff e i problemi che sono in gioco.

Interventi

Bibliografia degli scritti di Michael Ignatieff

  • (1978) A Just Measure of Pain: Penitentiaries in the Industrial revolution 1750-1850. New York: Pantheon (Penguin, 1989).
  • (1983) "Needs and Justice in the Wealth of Nations: an introductory essay", in Wealth and Virtue: The Shaping of Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment, eds. Istvan Hont and Michael Ignatieff, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Con Istvan Hont.
  • (1984) The Needs of Strangers: An essay on privacy, solidarity, and the politics of being human. New York: Viking.
  • (1985) Nineteen Nineteen. London: Faber.
  • (1987a) The Russian Album. New York: Viking: Penguin. Con Hugh Brody.
  • (1987b) Voices: Psychoanalysis. Nottingham: Spokesman Books. Con Bill Bourne, Udi Eichler e David Herman.
  • (1987c) Voices: Modernity and Its Discontents. Nottingham: Spokesman Books. Con Bill Bourne.
  • (1992) Asya. London: Chatto & Windus.
  • (1993a) Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism. New York: Girard, Straus and Giroux.
  • (1993b) Scar Tissue. London: Chatto & Windus.
  • (1997a) Isaiah Berlin: A Life Toronto: Penguin.
  • (1997b) The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience. New York: Henry Holt and Company.
  • (1997c) "The Gods of War", New York Review of Books. 44:15, Oct. 9.
  • (1998a) For Most of It I Have No Words: Genocide, Memory, Landscape. Norfolk: Dewi Lewis Publishing.
  • (1998b) Taking Risks: Literary Journalism from the Edge. Con Barbara Moon e Don Obe.
  • (1999a) After Paradise. London: Chatto & Windus.
  • (1999b) Whose universal values? The crisis in human rights. Amsterdam: Praemium Erasmianium.
  • (1999c) "Prophet in the Ruins", 46:4, March 4.
  • (1999d) "Human Rights; The Midlife Crisis", New York Review of Books. 46:9, May 20.
  • (2000a) Virtual War: Kosovo and beyond. New York: Metropolitan Books.
  • (2000b) "The Man Who Was Right", New York Review of Books. 47:5, March 23.
  • (2000c) "The New American Way of War". New York Review of Books. 47:12, July 20.
  • (2000d) Institutional Racism and the Police: Fact or Fiction? (Civil Society) London: Civitas: Institute for the Study of Civil Society. Con John Grieve, Mike O'Brien, Robert Skidelsky e David G. Green.
  • (2001a) The Russian Album. New York: St. Martin's Press.
  • (2001b) The Rights Revolution; Massey Lectures. Toronto: House of Anansi Press.
  • (2001c) Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  • (2001d) "Bush's First Strike", New York Review of Books. 48:5, March 29.
  • (2002a) "Human Rights, the Laws of War, and Terrorism". Social Research, 69.4, Winter.
  • (2002b) "Intervention and State Failure". Dissent, Winter.
  • (2002c) "No Exceptions?" Legal Affairs, May/June.
  • (2002d) Introduction. Moments of Reprieve by Primo Levi. Penguin Books.
  • (2002e) "Is the Era of Human Rights Ending?" New York Times, February 5.
  • (2002f) "Barbarians at the Gate?" New York Review of Books. 49:3, February 28.
  • (2002g) "Why Bush Must Send in His Troops: Imposing a Two-State Solution is the Last Chance in the Middle East." Guardian, April 19.
  • (2002h) "The Right Stuff", New York Review of Books. 49:10, June 1.
  • (2002i) "Chains of Command", New York Review of Books. 48:12, July 19.
  • (2002j) "Nation-Building Lite". New York Times Magazine July 28.
  • (2002k) "The Divided West". Financial Times, August 31.
  • (2002l) "When a Bridge Is Not a Bridge". New York Times Magazine October 27.
  • (2002m) "Mission Possible?" Review of A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis, by David Rieff. New York Review of Books, December 19.
  • (2002n) Truth and Lies: Stories from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa. Con Jillian Edelstein e Pumla Godbodo-Madikizela.
  • (2003a) Empire Lite: Nation-Building in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. London: Vintage.
  • (2003b) "America's empire is an empire lite", The New York Times Magazine, Friday, January 10.
  • (2003c) "Why Are We In Iraq? (And Liberia? And Afghanistan?)", The New York Times, September 7, 2003, Section 6; Page 38.
  • (2003d) Charlie Johnson in the Flames. Chatto Bodley Head & Cape
  • (2003e) The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror. Princeton: Princeton University. Press.
  • (2003f) "Americans Abroad", New York Review of Books. 50:6, April 10.

Altre risorse Internet

  • the web site of the Carr Center directed by Michael Ignatieff