The Needs of Strangers. by. Michael Ignatieff. · Rating details · ratings · 7 reviews. This brilliant and penetrating 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".Cited by: · 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 www.doorway.ru: · 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 4/5(1).
What is traded in goods seems more in the way of meeting ethically elated needs—inward and spiritual—or what might be construed as an individual's metaphysical and existential claims upon others, even God. *(1) Michael Ignatieff The Needs of Strangers, (New York: Henry Holt and Company, ) p 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. MEETING NEEDS, PROMOTING PEACE: Jane Addams and Her 21st Century Counterparts Elizabeth N. Agnew Introduction Tn his book The Needs of Strangers, Michael Ignatieff states that we are often deceived about our own needs, and he notes that few presumptions are more dangerous than our claim to know the needs of others better than they do themselves.
In this slender volume, Michael Ignatieff argues beautifully and eloquently for a modern humanism based on the awareness of what makes us human: our ability to express our needs and our ability to remember and reflect our history. It is also a short history of ideas in the field of political philosophy, ranging from the Stoics to Rousseau. 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. Authors. Michael Ignatieff. Harvard University (PhD) Abstract. This thought provoking book.
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