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Puzzling identities / Vincent Descombes ; translated by Stephen Adam Schwartz.
LIBRA BD236 .D5213 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Descombes, Vincent, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Embarras de l'identité. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Identity (Philosophical concept).
- Physical Description:
- viii, 211 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2016.
- Contents:
- Part I "Identity Can be a Complicated Matter"
- 1 Learning the Language of Identity 3
- Identity Questions: A Lexical Puzzle 3
- Declaring One's Identity 7
- An American Concept 13
- The Idea of an Identity Crisis 15
- Identity according to Erikson: An Anthropological Notion 20
- Identity after Erikson 22
- A Question of Language 26
- Plural Identity 29
- 2 Of What Use Is the Concept of Identity? 39
- Is There Such a Thing as Identity in This World? 39
- The Comedy of Identity 43
- The Principle of Individuation 47
- The Logic of Proper Names 51
- Identity Criteria 55
- Is Identity Relative? 58
- Part II "Who Am I?"
- 3 Identity in the Subjective Sense 65
- "Who Am I?" 65
- An Identity at Once Objective and Subjective 68
- How Can Identity Be Subjectified? 71
- To Be the Same in One's Own Eyes 74
- The Prince and the Cobbler 81
- Recovering One's Own Self 84
- 4 The Disembedded Individual 88
- The Right of Subjectivity 88
- To Be or Not to Be Oneself? 92
- The "Apprenticeship Years" 100
- Modern Identity 104
- Exercises in Self-Definition 108
- Becoming a Modern Individual 113
- The Future of Individualism 121
- Experssive Identity 129
- Part III "Who Are We?"
- 5 Collective Identities 135
- "Who Are We?" 135
- A Linguistic Difficulty 136
- The Analogy between a Person and a People 143
- The Logic of Collective Bodies 146
- The Moral Person as Fictive Person 153
- The Historical Identity of a City 159
- A Sociological Definition of the Nation 162
- The Enigma of Collective Individuality 167
- 6 The "We" as Instituting Power 174
- The Individuation of a "We" 174
- The Composition of a "We" 181
- The Instituting Power 191
- Envoi 195.
- Notes:
- Originally published as Les embarras de l'identité, Éditions Gallimard, 2013.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674732148
- 0674732146
- OCLC:
- 908448192
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