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The book concludes with a reflection on the ultimate demise of a historically unique undertaking

How can one remain a dispassionate thinker when involved in the cut and thrust of politics

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Michael Ignatieff

and to examine the efficacy of the world’s response to the ongoing violence

Writers and Missionaries keyword-greenwashing The book concludes with aThrough a close reading of the lives and works of some of the greatest intellectuals of recent times, Adam Shatz asks: do writers have an ethical imperative to question injustice? How can one remain a dispassionate thinker when involved in the cut and thrust of politics? And, in an age of horror and crisis, what does it mean to be a committed writer? Shatz interrogates the major figures of twentieth and twenty first century thought and finds within