by Amin Maalouf (Author), Barbara Bray (Translator), Barbara Bray (Translator), Amin Maalouf (Author), Amin Maalouf (Author)
The notion of identity - personal, religious, ethnic or national - is one that has given rise to heated passions and crimes throughout the history of mankind. What it is that makes each one of us unique and dissimilar to any other individual has been one of the fundamental questions of philosophy from Socrates to Freud. In this important series of reflections, the author, a Lebanese who now lives in France, where he is a well-known writer and commentator, considers how we define ourselves and how identity is understood in the world's different cultures.
Format: paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published:
ISBN 10: 1860467296
ISBN 13: 9781860467295
Book Overview: A profoundly intelligent book about identity: how the individual defines it and how different cultures perceive and construct it.