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The Lies That Bind
Kwame Anthony Appiah
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Pädagogik
Beschreibung
We often think identity is personal. But the identities that shape the world, our struggles, and our hopes, are social ones, shared with countless others. Our sense of self is shaped by our family, but also by affiliations that spread out from there, like our nationality, culture, class, race and religion.
Taking these broad categories as a starting point, Professor Appiah challenges our assumptions about how identity works. In eloquent and lively chapters, he weaves personal anecdote with historical, cultural and literary example to explore the entanglements within the stories we tell ourselves. We all know there are conflicts among identities; but Professor Appiah explores how identities are created by conflict.
Identities are then crafted from confusions - confusions this book aims to help us sort through. Religion, Appiah shows us, isn't primarily about beliefs. The idea of national self-determination is incoherent. Our everyday racial thinking is an artefact of discarded science. Class is not a matter of upper and lower. And the very idea of Western culture is a misleading myth. We will see our situation more clearly if we start to question these mistaken identities. This is radical new thinking from a master in the subject and will change forever the way we think about ourselves and our communities.
Rezensionen
A topical study, particularly given today'
Appiah makes the controversial and difficult subject of identity lucid, edifying, and even fun. When it comes to the humane values that allow us to live with one another, he may be our most penetrating?and entertaining?major philosopher.
Not only does that elegant writer and transcendent thinker, Anthony Appiah, clarify the historical gaslighting around color and racial stereotype, he also forges radical new theories of identity as they apply to almost every conceivable aspect of self. <i>The Lies That Bind</i> forces you to rethink what tribe you actually belong to with regard to race and religion, geography and gender, class and sexuality. Sheer genius and a joy to read.
Appiah'
Through this meditative journey, Appiah calls on us to buckle down to the difficult task of living with complexity -that is, the task of being modern. Erudite, personal, timely and deeply humane, this is a book for our time.
There is barely a word in his book I don'
Kwame Anthony Appiah again demonstrates that he is one of our foremost writers on identity, culture, and difference. With his trademark clarity, elegance, and rigor, he is a most useful guide to thinking through some of the complicated problems of who we are and what we can be.
This book will help a lot of people think with far more clarity about some of the thorniest issues of our times. An inspiring and essential read.
The Lies That Bind is a wise and erudite introduction to this most vexed of subjects.
A provocative and brilliant intervention into the current discussion of the role identity plays in our society. We'
Appiah believes we'
Erudite, personal, timely and deeply humane, this is a book for our time.
<i>The Lies That Bind</i> ranges even more widely in time and space than [Francis Fukuyama'
[Appiah is] one of the most brilliant philosophers in the English-speaking world. He is an intellectual hero of mine... a brilliant and beautiful thinker. He writes with élan and clarity, erudition and wit.
The terrible power of bad ideas is best resisted, as <i>The Lies That Bind</i> shows, by subjecting them to serious critical scrutiny. Identities central to contemporary cultures can be both historically grounded and utterly misconceived. There is so much to learn from Anthony Appiah'
Excellent... Appiah hopes to inspire a rethinking of our restrictive and therefore divisive notions of who we are. But if that seems an impossible task, should the massive obstacles stop us from trying? [Appiah] brings to the task a number of insights and the mind of a realist... if the solution to the fracturing of our world remains elusive, this book at least helps us think clearly about the problem.
If you are going to read only one book on identity this year, Appiah'
This wonderful book unravels a tapestry of suppositions about identity. Understanding what draws us together and what tears us apart lies at the core of democracy. This is a vital book, an antidote to violent nativism, and a key to success in the human experiment.
<i>The Lies that Bind</i> is a small volume of mighty power. In his lucid prose, Appiah elegantly dismantles the humbug, dogma, pseudo-science and propaganda that have long dogged our attempts to discuss 'identity,' and offers in their place a practical and philosophical tool-kit, as subtly radical in its aims as it is humane in application. From the illusions of 19th century ideas of biological destiny, to the late-capitalist logic of our contemporary 'cultural appropriation'
Kundenbewertungen
Sir Stafford Cripps, BBC, Mistaken Identities, gender, class, Man Booker Prize, PEN American Center, The Honor Code, inequality, Radio 4, Black and British: A Forgotten History, lectures, Chair of judges, Kwame Anthony Appiah, The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, Henry Finder, Miranda Kaufmann, The Ethics of Identity, Africa, Britain First, Cosmopolitanism, nationality, Cambridge University, The Origin of Others, David Olusoga, James Joyce, Switzerland, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, In My Father's House, Toni Morrison, Booker Prize, Professor of Philosophy and Law, Judith Butler, country, identity politics, religion, Ghana, Black Tudors: The Untold Story, Reith Lectures, Trump, colour, New York University