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Puzzling identities /

"As a logical concept, identity refers to one and the same thing. So why, Vincent Descombes asks, do we routinely use "identity" to describe the feelings associated with membership in a number of different communities, as when we speak of our ethnic identity and religious identity? An...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Descombes, Vincent
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2016.
Colección:Vienna lecture series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.