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The Needs of Strangers

The Needs of Strangers

An Essay on Privacy, Solidarity, and the Politics of Being Human

by Michael Ignatieff
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Publication Date: 03/06/1986
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What do we need in order to survive?
Whose needs do we have a right to speak for?
Which needs can be satisfied through political actions, and which cannot?

To answer these vital questions, Michael Ignatieff returns to the ancient languages of religion, art, and tragedy--and to important texts by Shakespeare, St. Augustine, and the great writers of the Enlightenment.

Drawing on these sources, he has written an incisive, moving interpretation of community and democracy in a work that not only examines the breakdown of human solidarity but shows how it might be re-created. The Needs of Strangers restores philosophy to its proper place as a guide to the art of being human.

ISBN:
9780140086812
9780140086812
Category:
Ethics & moral philosophy
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
03-06-1986
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
172.47x113.54x9.4mm
Weight:
0.1kg
Michael Ignatieff

Michael Ignatieff is a writer, historian and former politician. He has taught at Cambridge, Oxford, the University of Toronto and Harvard and is currently university professor at Central European University in Vienna. His books, which have been translated into twelve languages, include Blood and Belonging, Isaiah Berlin: a life, The Needs of Strangers, The Russian Album and The Ordinary Virtues.

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