Needs of Strangers

This thought provoking book uncovers a crisis in the political imagination, a wide-spread failure to provide the passionate sense of community "e;in which our need for belonging can be met."e; 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 Rousseau to Simone Weil. Incisiv...