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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.



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His observation of human nature in all its facets is wonderfully accurate -- David Robson * Sunday Telegraph *
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This book sets out quite simply what is required of civilisation in the third millennium * Le Monde *

On Identity

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      Publisher Vintage Publishing
      Published 19 October 2000
      ISBN-13 9781860467295
      978-1860467295
      ISBN-10 1860467296
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      Politics, Philosophy & Society Philosophy Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.



      Trade Review
      His observation of human nature in all its facets is wonderfully accurate -- David Robson * Sunday Telegraph *
      His is a voice which Europe cannot afford to ignore -- Claire Messud * Guardian *
      This book sets out quite simply what is required of civilisation in the third millennium * Le Monde *

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