Description |
1 online resource |
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Intellectual history of the modern age |
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Intellectual history of the modern age.
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Contents |
Introduction: The new "discourse" of identity -- Identity becomes an issue : European literature between the World Wars -- The ontological critique of identity : Heidegger and Sartre -- Identity becomes a word : Erik Erikson and psychological identity -- Social identity and the birth of identity politics, 1945-1970 -- Collective identities and their agendas, 1970-2000 -- The practical politics of national and multicultural identity : Germany, France, Canada, and the United States, 1970-2010 -- The problem of collective identity in liberal democracy -- The contradictions of postmodern identity -- Identity transforms the social sciences -- The kinds of kinds : explaining collective identity -- Identity as an ethical issue -- The necessity of identity |
Summary |
Identity: The Necessity of a Modern Idea is the first comprehensive history of the concept that answers the question, ""who, or what, am I?"" Gerald Izenberg contends that our most important identities, while historically conditioned, are rooted in permanent categories of human existence, such as sexuality, sociality, and labor |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-516) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Identity (Philosophical concept) -- History -- 20th century
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Identity (Philosophical concept) -- History -- 21st century
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Identity (Psychology) -- History -- 20th century
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Identity (Psychology) -- History -- 21st century
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Group identity -- History -- 20th century
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Group identity -- History -- 21st century
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Self -- History -- 20th century
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Self -- History -- 21st century
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Intellectual life -- History -- 20th century
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Intellectual life -- History -- 21st century
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PHILOSOPHY -- Mind & Body.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Personality.
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Group identity.
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Identity (Philosophical concept)
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Identity (Psychology)
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Intellectual life.
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Self.
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Genre/Form |
History.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780812292718 |
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0812292715 |
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