The Needs of Strangers - Couverture souple

Ignatieff, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0312281803 ISBN 13 : 9780312281809

Editeur : Picador, 2001

Synopsis

This thought provoking 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 Rosseau to Simone Weil. Incisive and moving, The Needs of Strangers returns philosophy to its proper place, as a guide to the art of being human.

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À propos de l'auteur

Michael Ignatieff is the author of Isaiah Berlin and The Warrior's Honor, as well as over fifteen other acclaimed books, including a memoir, The Russian Album, and the Booker finalist novel Scar Tissue. He writes regularly for the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, and the London Review of Books. Former head of Canada's Liberal Party, director of the Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard's Kennedy School, and president of Central European University, he is currently a professor at CEU in Vienna.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Picador
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0312281803
• ISBN 13: 9780312281809
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 168
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible