Cultural Identity and Political Ethics / / Paul Gilbert.
Today people's cultural identities are increasingly invoked in support of political claims, and these claims commonly lead to acrimony and violence. But what is 'cultural identity', and what is its political significance? This book offers a provocatively sceptical answer to these ques...
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Gilbert, Paul, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Cultural Identity and Political Ethics / Paul Gilbert. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022] ©2010 1 online resource (208 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. The Politics of Identity -- 2. National Character -- 3. The Idea of Deep Identity -- 4. Types of Identity -- 5. The Embodiment of Cultural Identity -- 6. Identity and Subjectivity -- 7. The Art of Identity -- 8. The Ethics of Identity -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Today people's cultural identities are increasingly invoked in support of political claims, and these claims commonly lead to acrimony and violence. But what is 'cultural identity', and what is its political significance? This book offers a provocatively sceptical answer to these questions. Tracing the idea back to the now largely discredited notion of national character, it argues that cultural identity is no deep going feature of individual psychology. Nor is it any uniform phenomenon. Rather, various types of so-called cultural identity emerge in response to the different circumstances people face. Such identities are marked by merely surface features of behaviour and these have a principally aesthetic appeal. In consequence, it is argued, cultural identities lack the ethical significance claimed for them and their invocation is in many ways politically pernicious. The book engages not only with thinkers in the analytic tradition like Isaiah Berlin, Charles Taylor and Will Kymlicka, but with Continental writers like Sartre and Kristeva. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Group identity Political aspects. Political ethics. Political sociology. Politics. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 9783110780468 print 9780748623877 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748630233?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748630233 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780748630233/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. The Politics of Identity -- 2. National Character -- 3. The Idea of Deep Identity -- 4. Types of Identity -- 5. The Embodiment of Cultural Identity -- 6. Identity and Subjectivity -- 7. The Art of Identity -- 8. The Ethics of Identity -- Index |
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