The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity

Appiah, Kwame Anthony

ISBN 10: 1631493833 / ISBN 13: 9781631493836

Editore: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2018

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Who do you think you are? Thats 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 Appiahs 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 atrocitiesfrom chattel slavery to genocide. And yet, he argues that social identities arent 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

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Titolo: The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity
Casa editrice: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Data di pubblicazione: 2018
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket