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Author:

Izenberg, Gerald N., 1939- author.

Title:

Identity : the necessity of a modern idea / Gerald N. Izenberg.

Edition:

1st edition.

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

viii, 542 pages ; 25 cm.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-516) and index.

Contents:

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 identity as the answer to the question, "who, or what, am I?" It covers the century from the end of World War I, when identity in this sense first became an issue for writers and philosophers, to 2010, when European political leaders declared multiculturalism a failure just as Canada, which pioneered it, was hailing its success. Along the way the book examines Erik Erikson's concepts of psychological identity and identity crisis, which made the word famous; the turn to collective identity and the rise of identity politics in Europe and America; varieties and theories of group identity; debates over accommodating collective identities within liberal democracy; the relationship between individual and group identity; the postmodern critique of identity as a concept; and the ways it nonetheless transformed the social sciences and altered our ideas of ethics.

Series:

Intellectual history of the modern age

ISBN:

0812248082 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780812248081 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)927401374

LCCN:

2016026507

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)