Identity and the Difficulty of Emancipation
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Beschreibung
This book provides a comprehensive account of the phenomenon of identity in politics, featuring for the first time the question of individual emancipation. It addresses the burning questions of our times, viz. nationalism, populism, Islamic fundamentalism, multiculturalism, postsecularism and postcolonialism. The volume repudiates an easy reconciliation between identity and emancipation, such as it occurs in contemporary liberal and multicultural political theories. It shows that we cannot achieve emancipation without Kant’s help, whereas identity relentlessly draws us back to collective values and the community. The book urges for a new understanding of identity and a politics that instead of accommodating identities seeks to govern them.
Identity is the buzzword in the humanities and social sciences, but also the most contentious and least conceptualized term. This book intends to bring theoretical clarity into the debate on how identity plays out in politics.This book provides a comprehensive account of the phenomenon of identity in politics, featuring for the first time the question of individual emancipation. It addresses the burning questions of our times, viz. nationalism, populism, Islamic fundamentalism, multiculturalism, postsecularism and postcolonialism. The volume repudiates an easy reconciliation between identity and emancipation, such as it occurs in contemporary liberal and multicultural political theories. It shows that we cannot achieve emancipation without Kant’s help, whereas identity relentlessly draws us back to collective values and the community. The book urges for a new understanding of identity and a politics that instead of accommodating identities seeks to govern them.
Identity is the buzzword in the humanities and social sciences, but also the most contentious and least conceptualized term. This book intends to bring theoretical clarity into the debate on how identity plays out in politics.The first book to feature identity together with the question of emancipation in politics The only book urging for a new understanding of identity in politics Brings theoretical clarity into the debate on how identity plays out in politics
Autor*in
Volker Kaul
Themen in »Identity and the Difficulty of Emancipation«
Liberal Nationalism Freedom and Identity Agency, Psychology and Liberalism Identity, Difference and Anti-Essentialism Psychology and the Self Multiculturalism, Islam and Suicide Bombers Foundations of Multiculturalism Islam and Democracy Communalism in Sub-Saharan Africa Identity and the Difficulty of Emancipation Liberalism in Search of Identity Identity and the Quest for Multiculturalism Identity Politics