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- 240 páginas
- 9 horas de lectura
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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 René 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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Against Identity, Alexander Douglas
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- Título
- Against Identity
- Subtítulo
- The Wisdom of Escaping the Self
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Alexander Douglas
- Editorial
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publicado en
- 2025
- Formato
- Tapa dura
- Páginas
- 240
- ISBN10
- 0241648211
- ISBN13
- 9780241648216
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- No ficción, Ciencias sociales, Tema histórico, Autoayuda, Ciencias políticas & Política, Temas psicológicos, Temática filosófica, Arte, Política, Ciencia, Economía, Periodismo & Ensayos, Tecnología, Escuela, Educación, Sociología, Teología, Sociedad, Feminismo, Lingüística, Antropología, Violencia, Teorías Políticas, Cultura, Empleo, Identidad, Ética, Género, Evolución, Libertad, Marxismo, Renacimiento (época), Verdad, Capitalismo, Ciencias humanas, Existencialismo, Libros de autoayuda, Historia de la filosofía, Filosofía política, Envidia, Criminología, Antropología Cultural, Teoría Crítica, Filosofía china, Orgullo, Ingeniería Social
- Descripción
- 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 René 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.