Identity and violence : the illusion of destiny / Amartya Sen.
Material type: TextLondon : Allen Lane, 2006Edition: First editionDescription: xx, 215 pages : 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0713999381 (hbk.)
- 9780713999389 (hbk.)
- 303.6012 SEN 23 001270
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193 NIE 001275 Thus spake zarathustra / | 204 SWI 001380 Uncommon answers to common questions / | 295 KRI 001227 In search of Zarathustra : | 303.6012 SEN 001270 Identity and violence : | 303.6230954 BRA 001272 The production of Hindu-Muslim violence in contemporary India / | 304.60954 BOS 001265 From population to people / | 304.60954 BOS 001266 From population to people / |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-197) and indexes.
Ch. 1.The violence of illusion --Ch. 2.Making sense of identity --Ch. 3.Civilizational confinement --Ch. 4.Religious affiliations and Muslim history --Ch. 5.West and anti-West --Ch. 6.Culture and captivity --Ch. 7.Globalization and voice --Ch. 8.Multiculturalism and freedom --Ch. 9.Freedom to think.
"Sen argues in this book that conflict and violence are sustained today, no less than in the past, by the illusion of a unique identity. Indeed, the world is increasingly taken to be a federation of religions (or of "cultures" or "civilizations"), ignoring the relevance of other ways in which people see themselves, involving class, gender, profession, language, literature, science, music, morals, or politics. Global attempts to stop such violence are also handicapped by the conceptual disarray generated by the presumption of singular and choiceless identity. When relations among different human beings are identified with a "clash of civilizations," or alternatively, with "amity among civilizations," human beings are miniaturized and deposited into little boxes." "Through his investigation of such diverse subjects as multiculturalism, postcolonialism, fundamentalism, terrorism, and globalization, Sen brings out the need for a clearheaded understanding of human freedom and the effectiveness of constructive public voice in global civil society. The world, Sen shows, can be made to move toward peace as firmly as it has recently spiraled toward violence and war."--BOOK JACKET.
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