Identity Fragments, Frankness

Name: Identity Fragments, Frankness
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ISBN: 9780823256112

ISBN-10: 0823256111

ISBN-13: 9780823256112

Edition: 2014

Authors: Jean-Luc Nancy, Franï¿½ois Raffoul

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Identity: Fragments, Frankness is a rich and powerful essay on the notion of identity and on how it operates in our contemporary world. In contrast to the various attempts to cling to established identities or to associate identity with dubious agendas, Nancy shows that an identity is always open to alterity and its transformations.Against cynical initiatives that seek to instrumentalize the question of identity in an attempt to manipulate sentiment against immigration, Nancy problematizes anew the notions of identity, nation, and national identity. He seeks to show that there is never a given identity but always an open process of identification that retains an exposure to difference. Thus…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 11/14/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 64
Size: 4.96" wide x 7.44" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.198
Language: English

Franï¿½ois Raffoul is Professor of Philosophy at Louisiana State University. He is the author of Heidegger and the Subject and The Origins of Responsibility and has co-translated (with David Pettigrew) Jean-Luc Nancyï¿½'s The Creation of the World.