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"Since the early 1990s, Michael Ignatieff has traveled the world's war zones, from Bosnia to the West Bank, from Afghanistan to central Africa. The Warrior's Honor is a report and a reflection on what he has seen in the places where ethnic war has become a way of life." "In a series of vivid portraits, Ignatieff charts the rise of the new moral interventionists - the aid workers, reporters, peacekeepers, Red Cross delegates, and diplomats - who believe that other people's misery, no matter how far away, is of concern to us all. He brings us face-to-face with the new ethnic warriors - the warlords, gunmen, and paramilitary forces - who have escalated postmodern war to an unprecedented level of savagery. From the encounter of these two groups, he draws dramatic and startling realizations about the ambiguous ethics of engagement, the limited force of moral justice in a world of war, and the inevitable clash between those who defend tribal and national loyalties and those who speak the universal language of human rights."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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出版社周刊评论
Essayist and novelist Ignatieff (Blood and Belonging; Scar Tissue) is a leading authority on ethnic war: conflicts involving not states but communities, characterized by genocidal ferocity. This book is comprised of nearly a decade's worth of essays that consider the moral relationship between these "zones of danger" and the "zones of safety" that are increasingly impelled to intervene, not out of ideology or self-interest, but from compassion. Ignatieff warns against "the seductiveness of moral disgust"the temptation to leave zones of ethnic war to their own fates. As a counterpoint, he describes a renewed emphasis on universal human rights in a world of indivisible human interests. The aid experts, the development specialists and even the U.N. politicians are at the cutting edge of this moral revolution. But how can they best change behaviors, as opposed to mitigating consequences? Mutual respect offers the best long-term prospect for breaking the cycle, Ignatieff finds. The book's strongest chapter describes the International Committee of the Red Cross, which seeks to facilitate war's conduct according to rules and codes of honor. Warriors, Ignatieff argues, can understand and observe such codes. But warriors are more likely to respond to other warriors than to the best-intentioned, toughest-minded humanitarians. The title and the theme of this book are correspondingly ironic for a U.S. that intervenes in ethnic conflicts while apparently determined to create kinder, gentler armed forces, perhaps gendered and gelded to a point where "warrior's honor" has no place. First serial to the New Yorker and Harper's. (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus评论
A prominent commentator on nationalism and ethnic violence reflects on the destructive power of ethnic warfare and the redemptive potential of modern universal human-rights culture. How can we reconcile two simultaneous trends: increasing globalization (via mass media and international agencies such as the UN, the Red Cross, and Amnesty International) and the persistent chaos of ethnic warfare abroad and racial disintegration at home? Ignatieff (Blood and Belonging, 1994, etc.) poses this difficult question and suggests some tough answers in his new collection of essays. The Warrior's Honor addresses specific situations and issues, but Ignatieff's overriding concerns are the ethics and morality of world citizenship. His purpose in pulling together these essays is to ""plumb the moral connections"" created by the recent invention of human-rights culture. Appropriately, he opens with a piece on the ethics of television, which has broken down untold barriers but has also made us ""voyeurs of the suffering of others."" Elsewhere he examines, through the prism of Serb-Croat animosities, how nationalism is a kind of narcissism by which the self is glorified and the other is devalued. Individual essays on accompanying Boutros-Ghali's 1995 African tour and on the Red Cross in the age of modern ethnic warfare attest to the concrete hindrances to moral intervention. lgnatieff seeks inspiration from an assortment of thinkers, from Freud and Adomo to observers of nationalism and current conflicts such as David Rieff and Timothy Garton Ash, and, finally, to the novelists Joyce and Conrad. As all these essays have appeared in different or partial form elsewhere, many readers will not be surprised by the collection. They will, however, note that Ignatieff has gathered the essays together as a coherent whole that speaks with optimism tempered by the objectivity gained from his firsthand experiences in the field. A Joycean call for awakening from the ""twilight of myth and collective illusion"" that is nationalism. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Having spent much of the '90s traveling the world's "zones of danger," initially for Blood and Belonging (1994) and the parallel BBC/PBS series, Ignatieff here views the '90s ethnic horrors from a variety of angles. In the section "Is Nothing Sacred? The Ethics of Television," he explores the Western humanitarian consensus that TV news stories often activate, but he insists that "a dishonor is done when the flow of television news reduces all the world's horror to identical commodities." In "The Narcissism of Minor Difference," Ignatieff probes the fictions at the root of liberal beliefs as well as nationalist hatreds. In "The Seductiveness of Moral Disgust," he suggests that "in a postimperial age, we have forsworn imperial methods, but traces of imperial arrogance remain." "The Warrior's Honor" discusses the International Red Cross and the Geneva Conventions in a world where soldiers are often thugs or teenagers. "The Nightmare from Which We Are Trying to Awake" traces many nations' efforts to transcend revenge and consign their painful past violence to the past. --Mary Carroll
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
This collection of Ignatieff's previously published essays conveys through meticulous reporting the moral enigmas of current warfare. Each of the five essays poses a core dilemma: How has television's "promiscuous" gaze promoted both moral universalism and "generalized misanthropy"? How does Freud's idea of the "narcissism of minor difference" play itself out among the perpetrators of Bosnia's ethnic cleansing? Why does "moral disgust" in our reaction to Africa's killing fields deflect Western states from an effective response? The book's title comes from an essay about the work of the International Committee of the Red Cross to blunt the slaughter of Afghan innocents in appeals to "warrior's honor." Ignatieff (Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism, LJ 3/1/94) calls for the creation of a "saving distance" between myths of historical violence and the imperatives of present life. He is not optimistic, but serious readers will not flinch from these durable and troubling essays. Recommended for all academic and public libraries.Zachary T. Irwin, Pennsylvania State Erie, Pa. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.