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ZIN Product Number: 10434189
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 Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Edition: 1ST NORTH
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
ISBN: 1559705930
Release Date: Jan 3, 2003
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 2 reviews.)
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"Identity - what makes each of us unique - has been a fundamental question of philosophers from Socrates to Freud. Identity is the crucible out of which we come: our background, our race, our gender, our tribal affiliations, our religion (or lack thereof), all go into making up who we are. All too often, however, the notion of identity - personal, religious, ethnic, or national - has given rise to heated passions and even massive crimes." ""I want to try and understand why so many people commit crimes in the name of identity," writes Amin Maalouf. Moving across the world's history, faiths, and politics, he argues against an oversimplified and hostile concept of identity. Cogently and persuasively he examines identity in the context of the modern world, where it can be viewed as both glory and poison. He demonstrates, too, the dangers of using identity as a protective - and therefore aggressive - mechanism, which frequently leads to the repression or extermination of minorities, heretics, or class enemies." Maalouf contends that many of us would reject our inherited conceptions of identity, to which we cling through habit, if only we examined them more closely. The future of society depends on accepting all identities, while recognizing our uniqueness.
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How humiliated cultural identity produces killers.
-- Emma MacLennan, the Director of a democracy trust., October 13, 2001
Also Recommended: Leo the African; The Gardens of Light; Samarkand; Ports of Call; The Rock of Tanios; The Second Century after Beatrice; Le Periple de Baldassare - all novels by Amin Maalouf, all jewels. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy.
A great buy, and a great read.
-- Hafed Al-Ghwell, August 19, 2002
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Group identity, Sociology, Social Science, Sociology - Social Theory, Violence, Leadership, Political Science, Group identity
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