{"product_id":"the-needs-of-strangers-isbn-9780140086812","title":"The Needs of Strangers","description":"What do we need in order to survive?\u003cbr\u003eWhose needs do we have a right to speak for?\u003cbr\u003eWhich needs can be satisfied through political actions, and which cannot?\u003cp\u003eTo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing 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.  \u003cb\u003eThe Needs of Strangers\u003c\/b\u003e restores philosophy to its proper place as a guide to the art of being human.\u003c\/p\u003eIntroduction: Tragedy and Utopia\u003cbr\u003e1. The Natural and the Social: King Lear\u003cbr\u003e2. Body and Spirit: Augustine, Bosch, Erasmus, Pascal\u003cbr\u003e3. Metaphysics and the Market: Hume and Boswell\u003cbr\u003e4. The Market and the Republic: Smith and Rousseau\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Homelessness and Belonging\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\"Elegant meditations on human need.  Ignatieff says something concrete and serious about each of his large topics.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Michael Walzer, \u003cb\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Ignatieff frames his questions with passion and precision [in a] searching and beautifully written meditation on human needs.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Michael Ignatieff writes an urgent prose … he will convince people, in highly readable fashion, that the ideas he discusses really matter.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Salman Rushdie, \u003cb\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Ignatieff\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003cb\u003eToronto Globe and Mail\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003cb\u003eA Just Measure of Pain\u003c\/b\u003e and co-author of \u003cb\u003eWealth and Virtue: The Shaping of Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment\u003c\/b\u003e.  Mr Ignatieff lives in London with his wife and son.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301125542117,"sku":"NP9780140086812","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140086812.jpg?v=1767740649","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-needs-of-strangers-isbn-9780140086812","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}