The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity: Creed, Country, Color, Class, Culture - Brossura

Appiah, Kwame Anthony

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1631495976 ISBN 13: 9781631495977

Casa editrice: Liveright Pub Corp, 2019

Riassunto

Who do you think you are? That’s a question bound up in another: What do you think you are? Gender. Religion. Race. Nationality. Class. Culture. Such affiliations give contours to our sense of self, and shape our polarized world. Yet the collective identities they spawn are riddled with contradictions, and cratered with falsehoods.The Lies That BindFrom Anton Wilhelm Amo, the eighteenth-century African child who miraculously became an eminent European philosopher before retiring back to Africa, to Italo Svevo, the literary marvel who changed citizenship without leaving home, to Appiah’s own father, Joseph, an anticolonial firebrand who was ready to give his life for a nation that did not yet exist, Appiah interweaves keen-edged argument with vibrant narratives to expose the myths behind our collective identities.These “mistaken identities,” Appiah explains, can fuel some of our worst atrocities—from chattel slavery to genocide. And yet, he argues that social identities aren’t something we can simply do away with. They can usher in moral progress and bring significance to our lives by connecting the small scale of our daily existence with larger movements, causes, and concerns.The Lies That Bind

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Liveright Pub Corp
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1631495976
• ISBN 13: 9781631495977
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile