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Against Identity

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Against IdentityCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780241648216 Format: Paper over boards Year: 2025 Publisher: Penguin UK Description: A philosopher explains why the search for identity is meaningless, and how we should escape the self Modern life encourages us to pursue the perfect identity. Whether we aspire to become the best lawyer or charity worker, life partner or celebrity influencer, we emulate exemplars that exist in the world hoping it will bring us happiness.

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780241648216
Format: Paper over boards
Year: 2025
Publisher: Penguin UK


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A philosopher explains why the search for identity is meaningless, and how we should escape the self




Modern life encourages us to pursue the perfect identity. Whether we aspire to become the best lawyer or charity worker, life partner or celebrity influencer, we emulate exemplars that exist in the world - hoping it will bring us happiness. But this often leads to a complex game of envy and pride. We achieve these identities but want others to imitate us. We disagree with those whose identities contradict ours - leading to polarisation and even violence. And yet when they thump against us, we are ashamed to ring hollow.




In Against Identity, philosopher Alexander Douglas seeks an alternative wisdom. Searching the work of three thinkers - ancient Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi, Dutch Enlightenment thinker Benedict de Spinoza, and 20th Century French theorist Rene Girard - he explores how identity can be a spiritual violence that leads us away from truth.




Through their worlds and radically different cultures, we discover how, at moments of historical rupture, our hunger for being grows- and yet, it is exactly these times when we should make peace with our indeterminacy and discover the freedom of escaping our selves.
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