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Puzzling Identities

Hardcover • 2016 • 1. edition

Puzzling Identities

By Vincent Descombes

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About the book

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 to bridge the abyss between the logical meaning of identi...Show more

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ISBN

9780674732148

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Published year

2016

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1

Original title

Puzzling Identities

Format

Hardcover

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