The Lies That Bind
Rethinking Identity
by Kwame Anthony Appiah

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Author(s)

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Publication, year

London : Profile Books, 2019

Scope

256 Pages, 19.5 cm.

ISBN

9781781259245

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We all know there are conflicts among identities; but Kwame Anthony Appiah explores how identities are created by conflict. Identities are then crafted from confusions. Religion, Appiah shows us, isn't primarily about beliefs. The idea of national self-determination is incoherent. Our everyday racial thinking is an artefact of discarded science. Class is not a matter of upper and lower. And the very idea of Western culture is a misleading myth. We will see our situation more clearly if we start to question these mistaken identities. This is radical new thinking from a master in the subject and will change forever the way we think about ourselves and our communities

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Location

Cabinet 29 - 6: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; Theorie / Expanded Space ; Global Art ; Theory

Remarks

Incl. bibliographical references and Index.