Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (Issues of Our Time)

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W. W. Norton & Company, 17 feb. 2007 - 240 sidor

“One of the few world intellectuals on whom we may rely to make sense out of our existential confusion.”—Nadine Gordimer

In this sweeping philosophical work, Amartya Sen proposes that the murderous violence that has riven our society is driven as much by confusion as by inescapable hatred. Challenging the reductionist division of people by race, religion, and class, Sen presents an inspiring vision of a world that can be made to move toward peace as firmly as it has spiraled in recent years toward brutality and war.
 

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CHAPTER The Violence of Illusion
1
CHAPTER Making Sense of Identity
18
CHAPTER Civilizational Confinement
40
CHAPTER Religious Affiliations
59
CHAPTER West and Anti West
84
CHAPTER Culture and Captivity
103
CHAPTER Globalization and Voice
120
CHAPTER Multiculturalism and Freedom
149
CHAPTER Freedom to Think
170
Notes
187
Names Index 199
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Amartya Sen is a professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard University. A former master of Trinity College, Cambridge, he won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998. His many celebrated books include Development as Freedom and The Idea of Justice.

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