Identity and the Difficulty of Emancipation
Identity and the Difficulty of Emancipation This book provides a comprehensive account of the phenomenon of identity in politics, featuring for the first time the question of individual emancipation.…
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Identity and the Difficulty of Emancipation
This book provides a comprehensive account of the phenomenon of identity in politics, featuring for the first time the question of individual emancipation. nationalism, populism, Islamic fundamentalism, multiculturalism, postsecularism and postcolonialism. It addresses the burning questions of our times, viz.
It shows that we cannot achieve emancipation without Kant's help, whereas identity relentlessly draws us back to collective values and the community. The volume repudiates an easy reconciliation between identity and emancipation, such as it occurs in contemporary liberal and multicultural political theories. The book urges for a new understanding of identity and a politics that instead of accommodating identities seeks to govern them.Identity is the buzzword in the humanities and social sciences, but also the most contentious and least conceptualized term. This book