The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity

by Kwame Anthony Appiah

Book Overview

Who do you think you are? That's a question bound up in another: What do you think you are? Gender. Religion. Race. Nationality. Class. Culture. Such affiliations give contours to our sense of self, and shape our polarized world. Yet the collective identities they spawn are riddled with contradictions, and cratered with falsehoods.

Kwame Anthony Appiah's The Lies That Bind is an incandescent exploration of the nature and history of the identities...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1631493833
• ISBN13: 9781631493836
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"