The Needs Of Strangers - Couverture souple

Ignatieff, Michael

 
9780099435518: The Needs Of Strangers

Synopsis

This brilliant and penetrating book uncovers a crisis in the political imagination, a wide-spread failure to provide the passionate sense of community "in which our need for belonging can be met". Seeking the answers to fundamental questions, Michael Ignatieff writes vividly both about ideas and about the people who tried to live by them - from Augustine to Bosch, from Rousseau to Simone Weil. Incisive and moving, The Needs of Strangers return to philosophy to its proper place, as a guide to the art of being human.

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This brilliant and penetrating book uncovers a crisis in the political imagination, a wide-spread failure to provide the passionate sense of community "in which our need for belonging can be met". Seeking the answers to fundamental questions, Michael Ignatieff writes vividly both about ideas and about the people who tried to live by them - from Augustine to Bosch, from Rousseau to Simone Weil. Incisive and moving, The Needs of Strangers return to philosophy to its proper place, as a guide to the art of being human.

Revue de presse

"Elegant meditations on human need. Ignatieff says something concrete and serious about each of his large topics."
—Michael Walzer, The New Republic

"Ignatieff frames his questions with passion and precision [in a] searching and beautifully written meditation on human needs."
Christian Science Monitor

"Michael Ignatieff writes an urgent prose ... he will convince people, in highly readable fashion, that the ideas he discusses really matter."
—Salman Rushdie, The Guardian

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