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In this brilliant short book, Amartya Sen argues that most of the conflicts in the contemporary world arise from individuals' notions of who they are, and which groups they belong to - local, national, religious - which define themselves in opposition to others. Our identification with these groups determines, for example, which side we belong to in a war, and whether we are an object of hatred by others or a member of a privileged caste.
If we are to overcome and resolve conflicts in our increasingly globalised world, we need to recognise that we all have multiple identities and that we share most of those identities with others than our differences make us distinct from them.
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'Identity and Violence' is a moving, powerful essay about the mischief of bad ideas. -- The Economist, August 13, 2006
Identity and Violence is a book both rich in ideas and easy to read, a model of its kind. -- Anthony Daniels, The Spectator, 29 July, 2006
Impassioned, eloquent and often moving -- John Gray, The Guardian, August 5th 2006
One of the few world intellectuals on whom we may rely to make sense out of our existential confusion. -- Nadine Gordimer
The world's poor and dispossessed could have no more articulate or insightful a champion. -- Kofi Annan
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Identity and Violence is a book both rich in ideas and easy to read, a model of its kind. -- Anthony Daniels, The Spectator, 29 July, 2006
Impassioned, eloquent and often moving -- John Gray, The Guardian, August 5th 2006
One of the few world intellectuals on whom we may rely to make sense out of our existential confusion. -- Nadine Gordimer
The world's poor and dispossessed could have no more articulate or insightful a champion. -- Kofi Annan
Amartya Sen is one of the world's leading public intellectuals. He is Professor of Economics and Professor of Philosophy at Harvard. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1998 to 2004, and won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998. His many celebrated books include Development as Freedom (1999), The Argumentative Indian (2005) and The Idea of Justice (2010). They have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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- PublisherAllen Lane
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0713999381
- ISBN 13 9780713999389
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