Puzzling Identities

Informationen zum Autor Vincent Descombes is Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Stephen Adam Schwartz is a Senior Lecturer in French at University College Dublin. Klappentext As a logical concept, identity refers to one and the same thing. So how can it describe membership in various groups, as in ethnic and religious identity? Bringing together an analytic conception of identity with a psychosocial understanding, Vincent Descombes demonstrates why a person has more than one answer to the essential question Who am I? Zusammenfassung As a logical concept! identity refers to one and the same thing. So how can it describe membership in various groups! as in ethnic and religious identity? Bringing together an analytic conception of identity with a psychosocial understanding! Vincent Descombes demonstrates why a person has more than one answer to the essential question Who am I?

Product details

• Authors: Vincent Descombes, Descombes Vincent
• Assisted by: Stephen Adam Schwartz (Translation), Schwartz Stephen Adam (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2016
• EAN: 9780674732148
• ISBN: 978-0-674-73214-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Institute for Human Sciences Vienna Lecture Series
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge