Gerald Izenberg

Identity

The Necessity of a Modern Idea

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Produktbeschreibung

Gerald Izenberg is Professor Emeritus of History, Washington University in St. Louis, and author of Impossible Individuality: Romanticism, Revolution, and the Origins of Modern Selfhood, 1787-1802.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 552
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 157mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 793g
• ISBN-13: 9780812224535
• ISBN-10: 0812224531
• Artikelnr.: 54803766

Autorenporträt

Gerald Izenberg

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. The New "Discourse" of Identity
Chapter 1. Identity Becomes an Issue: European Literature Between the World
Wars
Chapter 2. The Ontological Critique of Identity: Heidegger and Sartre
Chapter 3. Identity Becomes a Word: Erik Erikson and Psychological Identity
Chapter 4. Social Identity and the Birth of Identity Politics, 1945-1970
Chapter 5. Collective Identities and Their Agendas, 1970-2000
Chapter 6. The Practical Politics of National and Multicultural Identity:
Germany, France, Canada, and the United States, 1970-2010
Chapter 7. The Problem of Collective Identity in Liberal Democracy
Chapter 8. The Contradictions of Postmodern Identity
Chapter 9. Identity Transforms the Social Sciences
Chapter 10. The Kinds of Kinds: Explaining Collective Identity
Chapter 11. Identity as an Ethical Issue
Conclusion. The Necessity of Identity
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments