Puzzling Identities (Institute for Human Sciences Vienna Lecture)

by VincentDescombes (Author), StephenAdamSchwartz (Author)

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  2016

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  As a logical concept, identity refers to one and the same thing. So how can it describe membership in various groups, as in ethnic and religious identity? Bringing together an analytic conception of identity with a psychosocial understanding, Vincent Descombes demonstrates why a person has more than one answer to the essential question Who am I?