"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?"" -- Publisher's description
כותר |
Puzzling identities / Vincent Descombes translated by Stephen Adam Schwartz. |
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יוצרים נוספים |
Schwartz, Stephen Adam (translator) |
מוציא לאור |
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press |
שנה |
2016 |
הערות |
Originally published as Les embarras de l'identité, © Éditions Gallimard, 2013. Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-206) and index. Translated from the French. |
הערת תוכן ותקציר |
I. "Identity Can Be a Complicated Matter." Learning the Language of Identity : Identity Questions: A Lexical Puzzle Declaring One's Identity An American Concept The Idea of an Identity Crisis Identity According to Erikson: An Anthropological Notion Identity after Erikson A Question of Language Plural Identity -- Of What Use Is the Concept of Identity? : Is There Such a Thing as Identity in This World? The Comedy of Identity The Principle of Individuation The Logic of Proper Names Identity Criteria Is Identity Relative? -- II. "Who Am I?" Identity in the Subjective Sense. "Who Am I?" An Identity at Once Objective and Subjective How Can Identity Be Subjectified? To Be the Same in One's Own Eyes The Prince and the Cobbler Recovering One's Own Self -- The Disembedded Individual : The Right of Subjectivity To Be or Not to Be Oneself? The "Apprenticeship Years" Modern Identity Exercises in Self-Definition Becoming a Modern Individual The Future of Individualism Expressive Identity -- III. "Who Are We?" Collective Identities : "Who Are We?" A Linguistic Difficulty The Analogy between a Person and a People The Logic of Collective Bodies The Moral Person as Fictive Person The Historical Identity of a City A Sociological Definition of the Nation The Enigma of Collective Individuality -- The "We" as Instituting Power : The Individuation of a "We" The Composition of a "We" The Instituting Power Envoi. |
סדרה |
Vienna Lecture Series |
היקף החומר |
viii, 211 pages 25 cm. |
שפה |
אנגלית |
שנת זכויות יוצרים |
©2016 |
מספר מערכת |
990039106980205171 |
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