Puzzling Identities

by Vincent Descombes

As a logical concept, identity refers to one and the same thing. So why, Vincent Descombes asks, do we routinely use "identity" to describe the feelings associated with membership in a number of different communities, as when we speak of our ethnic identity and religious identity? And how can we ascribe the same "identity" to more than one individual in a group? In Puzzling Identities, one of the leading figures in French philosophy seeks...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674732146
• ISBN13: 9780674732148
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"