Isbn: 9780748623884 - cultural identity and political ethics (8 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 208 pages. 8.43x5.43x0.55 inches. In Stock.

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Zustand: New. Critiques the politics of cultural identity, exploring the difference between political roles and collective identities. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 139 x 215 x 12. Weight in Grams: 252. 208 pages. Critiques the politics of cultural identity, exploring the difference between political roles and collective identities. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: JHMC; JPA. Dimension: 139 x 215 x 12. Weight: 252. . 2010. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Today, people's cultural identities are increasingly invoked in support of political claims, and these claims commonly lead to acrimony and violence. But what is 'cultural identity', and what is its political significance This book offers a provocatively sceptical answer to these questions. Tracing the idea back to the now largely discredited notion of national character, it argues that cultural identity is no deep going feature of individual psychology. Nor is it any uniform phenomenon. Rather, various types of so-called cultural identity emerge in response to the different circumstances people face. Such identities are marked by merely surface features of behaviour and these have a principally aesthetic appeal. In consequence, it is argued, cultural identities lack the ethical significance claimed for them and their invocation is in many ways politically pernicious. The book engages not only with thinkers in the analytic tradition like Isaiah Berlin, Charles Taylor and Will Kymlicka, but with Continental writers like Sartre and Kristeva.…

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. Critiques the politics of cultural identity, exploring the difference between political roles and collective identities.&Uumlber den AutorrnrnPaul Gilbert is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hull. His previous books .