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Author Izenberg, Gerald N., 1939- author.

Title Identity : the necessity of a modern idea / Gerald Izenberg
Edition 1st edition
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Intellectual history of the modern age
Intellectual history of the modern age.
Contents Introduction: The new "discourse" of identity -- Identity becomes an issue : European literature between the World Wars -- The ontological critique of identity : Heidegger and Sartre -- Identity becomes a word : Erik Erikson and psychological identity -- Social identity and the birth of identity politics, 1945-1970 -- Collective identities and their agendas, 1970-2000 -- The practical politics of national and multicultural identity : Germany, France, Canada, and the United States, 1970-2010 -- The problem of collective identity in liberal democracy -- The contradictions of postmodern identity -- Identity transforms the social sciences -- The kinds of kinds : explaining collective identity -- Identity as an ethical issue -- The necessity of identity
Summary Identity: The Necessity of a Modern Idea is the first comprehensive history of the concept that answers the question, ""who, or what, am I?"" Gerald Izenberg contends that our most important identities, while historically conditioned, are rooted in permanent categories of human existence, such as sexuality, sociality, and labor
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-516) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Identity (Philosophical concept) -- History -- 20th century
Identity (Philosophical concept) -- History -- 21st century
Identity (Psychology) -- History -- 20th century
Identity (Psychology) -- History -- 21st century
Group identity -- History -- 20th century
Group identity -- History -- 21st century
Self -- History -- 20th century
Self -- History -- 21st century
Intellectual life -- History -- 20th century
Intellectual life -- History -- 21st century
PHILOSOPHY -- Mind & Body.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Personality.
Group identity.
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Identity (Psychology)
Intellectual life.
Self.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812292718
0812292715
Other Titles Necessity of a modern idea