Kimberley Brownlee is a Professor of Philosophy and holds the Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Political & Social Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. Her current research focuses on sociability, social rights, loneliness, and freedom of association. She is the author of Conscience and Conviction: The Case for Civil Disobedience (OUP 2012), co-editor of Disability and Disadvantage (OUP 2009), and co-editor of The Blackwell Companion to Applied Philosophy (Wiley 2016). She was previously a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick.

At the heart of this book then is a simple plea - that we open our eyes to what is most basic, in many ways what is most challenging, but also most meaningful, about being human: our need for other humans.

• Acknowledgements Introduction 1: Social Beings 2: Social Deprivation 3: Sustaining Others 4: Interactional Freedom 5: Dilemmas of Sociability 6: Associational Freedom 7: Moral Messiness 8: Segregation Notes Bibliography Index

Kimberley Brownlee is a Professor of Philosophy and holds the Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Political & Social Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. Her current research focuses on sociability, social rights, loneliness, and freedom of association. She is the author of Conscience and Conviction: The Case for Civil Disobedience (OUP 2012), co-editor of Disability and Disadvantage (OUP 2009), and co-editor of The Blackwell Companion to Applied Philosophy (Wiley 2016). She was previously a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick.

At the heart of this book then is a simple plea - that we open our eyes to what is most basic, in many ways what is most challenging, but also most meaningful, about being human: our need for other humans.

• Acknowledgements Introduction 1: Social Beings 2: Social Deprivation 3: Sustaining Others 4: Interactional Freedom 5: Dilemmas of Sociability 6: Associational Freedom 7: Moral Messiness 8: Segregation Notes Bibliography Index

Kimberley Brownlee is a Professor of Philosophy and holds the Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Political & Social Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. Her current research focuses on sociability, social rights, loneliness, and freedom of association. She is the author of Conscience and Conviction: The Case for Civil Disobedience (OUP 2012), co-editor of Disability and Disadvantage (OUP 2009), and co-editor of The Blackwell Companion to Applied Philosophy (Wiley 2016). She was previously a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick.

At the heart of this book then is a simple plea - that we open our eyes to what is most basic, in many ways what is most challenging, but also most meaningful, about being human: our need for other humans.

• Acknowledgements Introduction 1: Social Beings 2: Social Deprivation 3: Sustaining Others 4: Interactional Freedom 5: Dilemmas of Sociability 6: Associational Freedom 7: Moral Messiness 8: Segregation Notes Bibliography Index