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The ethics of identity

Author: Anthony Appiah
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2005.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we value. But to what extent do "identities" constrain our freedom, our ability to make an individual life, and to what extent do they enable our individuality? In this work,  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Anthony Appiah
ISBN: 0691120366 9780691120362
OCLC Number: 54685971
Description: xviii, 358 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: The ethics of individuality --
Autonomy and its critics --
The demands of identity --
The trouble with culture --
Soul making --
Rooted cosmopolitanism.
Responsibility: Kwame Anthony Appiah.
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"Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we value. But to what extent do "identities" constrain our freedom, our ability to make an individual life, and to what extent do they enable our individuality? In this work, philosopher and African Studies scholar Kwame Anthony Appiah draws on thinkers through the ages and across the globe to explore such questions." "The Ethics of Identity takes seriously both the claims of individuality - the task of making a life - and the claims of identity, these large and often abstract social categories through which we define ourselves."--BOOK JACKET.

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