On Identity

Amin Maalouf, Barbara Bray

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Harvill
01 August 2002

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Philosophy; Society & Social Sciences; The self, ego, identity, personality

A profoundly intelligent book about identity- how the individual defines it and how different cultures perceive and construct it.

The notion of identity - personal, religious, ethnic or national - is one that has given rise to heated passions and crimes throughout the history of mankind. What it is that makes each one of us unique and dissimilar to any other individual has been one of the fundamental questions of philosophy from Socrates to Freud.

In this important series of reflections, the author, a Lebanese who now lives in France, where he is a well-known writer and commentator, considers how we define ourselves and how identity is understood in the world's different cultures.

By: Amin Maalouf
Translated by: Barbara Bray
Imprint: Harvill
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 108g
ISBN: 9781860467295
ISBN 10: 1860467296
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 01 August 2002
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , A / AS level , Undergraduate
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Publisher's Status: Active

Amin Maalouf was formerly director of the leading Beirut daily, an-Nahar, and the editor of Jeune Afrique. His fiction, in English translation, includes Leo the African, The Rock of Tanios, Samarkland and The Gardens of Light. He has also written an acclaimed scholarly work, The Crusades through Arab Eyes. Barbara Bray has twice won the Scott-Moncrieff Prize, as well as the French-American Foundation Prize, for her translations. These include The Lover by Marguerite Duras, The Concert by Ismail Kadare, and Georges Sand's letters in Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence.

Reviews for On Identity

""His observation of human nature in all its facets is wonderfully accurate"" -- David Robson Sunday Telegraph ""His is a voice which Europe cannot afford to ignore"" -- Claire Messud Guardian ""This book sets out quite simply what is required of civilisation in the third millennium"" Le Monde

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