The politics and ethics of identity in search of ourselves

We are multiple, fragmented, and changing selves who, nevertheless, believe we have unique and consistent identities. What accounts for this illusion? Why has the problem of identity become so central in post-war scholarship, fiction, and the media? Following Hegel, Richard Ned Lebow contends that t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Lebow, Richard Ned, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2012.
Edición:1st ed
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798179206719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Narratives and identity
  • Homer, Virgil and identity
  • Mozart and the enlightenment
  • Germans and Greeks
  • Beam me up, Lord
  • Science fiction and immortality
  • Identity reconsidered.