The Needs of Strangers

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Reissue of a profound exploration of the concept of human need by the esteemed author of On Consolation

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781782279082
ISBN-10: 1782279083
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 125 x 196 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Pushkin Press

Notă biografică

Michael Ignatieff was born in Toronto in 1947 and educated at the University of Toronto and Harvard University, from which he received a Ph.D. in 1976. A journalist on the Toronto Globe and Mail from 1965 to 1968, a professor of history at the University of British Columbia from 1976 to 1978, and Senior Research Fellow at King's College, Cambridge, from 1978 to 1984, he is also author of A Just Measure of Pain and co-author of Wealth and Virtue: The Shaping of Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment. Mr Ignatieff lives in London with his wife and son.

Cuprins

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

Recenzii

"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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