The Politics and Ethics of Identity : In Search of Ourselves / Richard Ned Lebow.

Challenges the notion of consistent unitary identities, arguing that we are multiple, changing selves, shaped by social contexts and processes.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lebow, Richard Ned (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Subjects:	Political psychology. Identity (Philosophical concept) identity. Political psychology
Online Access:	Click for online access

Table of Contents:

Cover; THE POLITICS AND ETHICS OF IDENTITY; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 Introduction; Autonomy; Genealogy of identity; Identity interrogated; Rethinking identity; Structure of the book; 2 Narratives and identity; Golden ages; Utopias; Dystopias; 3 Homer, Virgil, and identity; The philosophy of identity; In-groups and out-groups; The Iliad; The Aeneid; Learning from the Ancients; 4 Mozart and the Enlightenment; Viva La Libertà; Don Giovanni; Die Zauberflöte; Liberation?; 5 Germans and Greeks; Greece rediscovered; The Greeks and philosophy.
Art versus philosophyBeauty and suffering; Tragedy and freedom; History and ethics; Greece as inkblot; Tragedy and politics; Germany and Europe; The tragedy of German philosophy; German and European identity; German thinkers and modernity; 6 Beam me up, Lord; American millennialism; Left Behind; The plot; Theology; Continuity; The Millennium; The Jews; Gender; Who reads Left Behind?; Making sense of Dispensationalism; Escaping modernity; 7 Science fiction and immortality; Immortality; Becoming immortal; Science fiction and progress; The consequences of immortality; Immortality and identity.
Conclusion8 Identity reconsidered; Modern selves; Making selves; Agency; Identity and order; Utopias and progress; Narratives; What makes us human?; Future of identity; BIBLIOGRAPHY; NAME INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX.

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