Reissue of a profound exploration of the concept of human need by the esteemed author of On Consolation
What does a person need, not just to survive, but to flourish? In this profound, searching book, Michael Ignatieff explores the many human needs that go beyond basic sustenance: for love, for respect, for community and consolation. In a society of strangers, how might we find a common language to express such needs?
Ignatieff's lucid, penetrating enquiry takes him back to great works of philosophy, literature and art, from St. Augustine to Hieronymus Bosch to Shakespeare. Reissued with a new preface, The Needs of Strangers builds to a moving meditation on the possibility of accommodating claims of difference within a politics based on common need.
- 168 pages
- English
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Philosophy History & TheoryTable of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Preface
- INTRODUCTION: TRAGEDY AND UTOPIA
- 1: The Natural and the Social
- 2: Body and Spirit
- 3: Metaphysics and the Market
- 4: The Market and the Republic
- CONCLUSION: HOMELESSNESS AND BELONGING
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- About the Author
- Copyright
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