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Puzzling Identities (Hardcover)
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Puzzling Identities (Hardcover)
Series: Institute for Human Sciences Vienna Lecture Series
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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? And how can we ascribe the same "identity" to
more than one individual in a group? In Puzzling Identities, one of
the leading figures in French philosophy seeks to bridge the abyss
between the logical meaning of identity and the psychological sense
of "being oneself." Bringing together an analytic conception of
identity derived from Gottlob Frege with a psychosocial
understanding stemming from Erik Erikson, Descombes contrasts a
rigorously philosophical notion of identity with ideas of
collective identity that have become crucial in contemporary
cultural and political discourse. He returns to an argument of
ancient Greek philosophy about the impossibility of change for a
material individual. Distinguishing between reflexive and
expressive views of "being oneself," he shows the connections
between subjective identity and one's life and achievements. We
form profound attachments to the particular communities by which we
define ourselves. At the same time, becoming oneself as a modern
individual requires a process of disembedding oneself from one's
social milieu. This is how undergoing a crisis of identity while
coming of age has become for us a normal stage in human life.
Puzzling Identities demonstrates why a person has more than one
answer to the essential question "Who am I?"
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