Identity: Essays Based on Herbert Spencer Lectures Given in the University of Oxford
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, New York, 1995
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Hardcover. With jacket. xi+170pp. First edition. (Very) Fine condition, with a near fine jacket. The jacket shows moderate ordinary shelfwear, mostly at its top, but remains free of nicks, tears and creases; one of its top corners is heavily rubbed. The book is nearly flawless. We see light spotting at the edges, mostly the top edge, and a name/date written in ink on the flyleaf. A beautifully-preserved copy which outshines its jacket. Bound in black cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to the spine. Dimensions: 5.625 x 8.75 x .25 inches. Weight: 347 grams. (If you order this from outside the United States, we are likely to request an additional payment to help cover the postage.) Every order includes tracking and is wrapped and robustly packaged with care in Tucson, AZ. ~Mesquite Booksellers.
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- Title
- Identity: Essays Based on Herbert Spencer Lectures Given in the University of Oxford
- Author
- Henry Harris (editor)
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, New York
- Publication year
- 1995
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0198235259
- ISBN 13
- 9780198235255
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 347 grams
- Dimensions
- 5.625 inches width by 8.75 inches height by 0.25 inches depth
- Seller catalogs
- Philosophy
Identity contains essays by six internationally famous contributors, focusing on different facets of identity from the viewpoint of their various disciplines. Two philosophers, Bernard Williams and Derek Parfit, discuss, respectively, numerical identity (when can we say that two phenomena observed at different times are one and the same thing?) and personal identity (how far can the concept of `I' be stretched, and does it always matter whether we can say if that would still be me?). Henry Harris looks at philosophical discussions of identity from the persopective of an experimentalist, and discusses whether philosophical thought-experiments have any basis in scientific reality.
The essays that follow offer perspectives from outside philosophy: Michael Ruse considers homosexual identity and to what extent it is reasonable to claim that homosexuality is a social construct. Terence Cave looks at personal identity through the eye of literature and fiction, and portrays idetnity as generated through the narratives that one weaves about oneself or about other people. Finally, Anthony D Smith looks at national identities and how they are formed, analysing how this process is shaped by the interplay of cultural inheritance, political expediency, and myth.
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