Michael Ignatieff

The Needs of Strangers (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 Rousseau 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Picador
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781466889064
• Artikelnr.: 41985920

Autorenporträt

Michael Ignatieff

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Tragedy and Utopia
1. The Natural and the Social: King Lear
2. Body and Spirit: Augustine, Bosch, Erasmus, Pascal
3. Metaphysics and the Market: Hume and Boswell
4. The Market and the Republic: Smith and Rousseau
Conclusion: Homelessness and Belonging
Notes
Index