Identity: Fragments, Frankness

by Jean-Luc Nancy

Book Overview

Identity: Fragments, Frankness is a rich and powerful essay on the notion of identity and on how it operates in our contemporary world. In contrast to the various attempts to cling to established identities or to associate identity with dubious agendas, Nancy shows that an identity is always open to alterity and its transformations.

Against cynical initiatives that seek to instrumentalize the question of identity in an attempt to manipulate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823256111
• ISBN13: 9780823256112
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.4"