
A Theory of Human Need
- List Price: $18.95
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Guilford Publications
- Publish date: 12/01/2008
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"[The authors] have combined critical analysis with common sense to engage the reader in an effort that reawakens optimism about what reliance on belief in our common humanity could accomplish.'' --Eric Holtzman, Ph.D. "I have read A Theory of Human Need with great interest and enjoyment. I consider it the most important contribution to the subject in many years. It is particularly strong in defending an objective conception of need in the face of the recently voguish tendency to treat needs as subjective and purely culturally determined. The book's capacity to integrate economic, physiological, and philosophical arguments is particularly gratifying.'' --Herbert Gintis, Ph.D. "This book will have an important place in the academic world. It is one of the first of a new crop of books that take up the concerns with need expressed in the 1970s and then abandoned in the 1980s. It is one of the few books that uses both anglophone and continental philosophy (e.g. Rawls and Habermas) fluently to address contemporary problems....There is really no book I can think of that tries to combine philosophical analysis and policy in this area in the way Doyal and Gough do.'' --Sonia Kruks, author of Situation and Human Existence
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