The Needs of StrangersThis thought provoking 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." 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. |
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Page 92
... passion for public good ' but by ' a spirit of avarice and industry , art and luxury'.2 27 Their account of ' hunger , thirst and the passion for sex'28 as the motor of historical progress may have shocked religious sensibilities , but ...
... passion for public good ' but by ' a spirit of avarice and industry , art and luxury'.2 27 Their account of ' hunger , thirst and the passion for sex'28 as the motor of historical progress may have shocked religious sensibilities , but ...
Page 123
... passion offers to desire more than one's fellow citizens . Rousseau held out hope that the experience of civic ... passions and over their polity , the republic would surrender its freedom . It would terminate in a dictatorship of need ...
... passion offers to desire more than one's fellow citizens . Rousseau held out hope that the experience of civic ... passions and over their polity , the republic would surrender its freedom . It would terminate in a dictatorship of need ...
Page 149
... passions , yet it seems that in two points of the greatest moment to the being and continuance of the world , God hath intended our passions to prevail over our reason . The first is , the propagation of the species , since no wise man ...
... passions , yet it seems that in two points of the greatest moment to the being and continuance of the world , God hath intended our passions to prevail over our reason . The first is , the propagation of the species , since no wise man ...
Contents
Tragedy and Utopia | 7 |
THE NATURAL AND THE SOCIAL | 25 |
THE BODY AND THE SPIRIT | 100 |
Copyright | |
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The Needs of Strangers: An Essay on Privacy, Solidarity, and the Politics of ... Michael Ignatieff No preview available - 1986 |
The Needs of Strangers: An Essay on Privacy, Solidarity, and the Politics of ... Michael Ignatieff No preview available - 1986 |
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