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Help: The Original Human Dilemma Hardback - 2004

by Garret Keizer

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It is the primal cry, the first word in a want ad, the last word on the toolbar of a computer screen. A song by the Beatles, a prayer to the gods, the reason Uncle Sam is pointing at you. What we get by with a little of, what we could use a bit more of, what we were only trying to do when we were so grievously misunderstood. What we'll be perfectly fine without, thank you very much.

It makes us human. It can make us suffer. It can make us insufferable. It can make all the difference in the world. It can fall short.

In Help, Garret Keizer raises the questions we ask every day and in every relationship that matters to us. What does it mean to help? When does our help amount to hindrance? When are we getting less help -- or more -- than we actually want? When are we kidding ourselves in the name of helping someone else?

Drawing from history, literature, firsthand interviews, and personal anecdotes, Help invites us to ponder what is at stake whenever one human being tries to assist another. From the biblical Good Samaritan to present-day humanitarians, from heroic sacrifices in times of political oppression to nagging dilemmas in times of ordinary stress, Garret Keizer takes us on a journey that is at once far-ranging and never far from where we live. He reminds us that in our perpetual need for help, and in our frequent perplexities over how and when to give it, we are not alone.

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The trooper was calling long-distance from Arizona to find out what I knew about Kathy B. besides her name, the Christian half of which happened to be the same as my wife's.

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  • Title Help: The Original Human Dilemma
  • Author Garret Keizer
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 276
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher HarperOne, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date September 14, 2004
  • ISBN 9780060560621 / 0060560622
  • Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.28 x 6.26 x 0.97 in (23.57 x 15.90 x 2.46 cm)
  • Category Philosophy
  • Library of Congress subjects Conduct of life, Helping behavior
  • Dewey Decimal Code 158.3

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