On Identity
$28.67
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2002
Summary
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781860467295 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1860467296 |
| Author: | Amin Maalouf, Barbara Bray |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Harvill Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2002 |
| Weight: | 108g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 9mm |
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His observation of human nature in all its facets is wonderfully accurate
“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
About The Author
Amin Maalouf
Amin Maalouf’s fiction includes Leo the African, Rock of Tanios, which won the 1993 Prix Goncourt, Samarkand and Ports of Call. He is also the author of The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, as well as the essay On Identity.
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 George Sand’s letters in Flaubert-Sand- The Correspondence.
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