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Cultural Identity and Political Ethics

Engelsk Paperback

Cultural Identity and Political Ethics

Engelsk Paperback

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Today people''s cultural identities are increasingly invoked in support of political claims, and these claims commonly lead to acrimony and violence. But what is `cultural identity'', and what is its political significance?

This book offers a provocatively sceptical answer to these questions. Tracing the idea back to the now largely discredited notion of national character, it argues that cultural identity is not a deep-going feature of individual psychology. Nor is it any uniform phenomenon. Rather, various types of so-called cultural identity emerge in response to the different circumstances people face. Such identities are marked by merely surface features of behaviour and these have a principally aesthetic appeal. In consequence, it is argued, cultural identities lack the ethical significance claimed for them and their invocation is in many ways politically pernicious.

To argue his points, paul Gilbert engages with thinkers in the analytic tradition like Isaiah Berlin, Charles Taylor and Will Kymlicka and with Continental writers such as Sartre and Kristeva. He backs up his claims with topical examples ranging from Islamic dress to Irish music.



Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
208
ISBN-13:
9780748623884
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0748623884
Udg. Dato:
13 sep 2010
Længde:
12mm
Bredde:
215mm
Højde:
139mm
Forlag:
Edinburgh University Press
Oplagsdato:
13 sep 2010
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