Puzzling Identities / / Vincent Descombes.
As a logical concept, identity refers to one and the same thing. So how can it describe membership in various groups, as in ethnic and religious identity? Bringing together an analytic conception of identity with a psychosocial understanding, Vincent Descombes demonstrates why a person has more than...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Institute for Human Sciences Vienna Lecture Series ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (190 p.) |
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| Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Part I. "Identity Can Be A Complicated Matter" -- 1. Learning the Language of Identity -- 2. Of What Use Is the Concept of Identity? -- Part II. "Who Am I ?" -- 3. Identity in the Subjective Sense -- 4. The Disembedded Individual -- Part III. "Who Are We ?" -- 5. Collective Identities -- 6. The “We” as Instituting Power -- Works Cited -- Index |
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| Summary: | As a logical concept, identity refers to one and the same thing. So how can it describe membership in various groups, as in ethnic and religious identity? Bringing together an analytic conception of identity with a psychosocial understanding, Vincent Descombes demonstrates why a person has more than one answer to the essential question Who am I? |
| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9780674495869 9783110638585 |
| DOI: | 10.4159/9780674495869 |
| Access: | restricted access |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Vincent Descombes. |