Identity & Violence
Book by Amartya Sen
The World May Be More Riven By Murderous Violence Than Ever Before, Yet Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen Argues In This Sweeping Philosophical Work That Its Brutalities Are Driven As Much By Confusion As By Inescapable Hatred. ... Google Books
Originally published: 2006
Author: Amartya Sen
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In this sweeping philosophical work, Amartya Sen proposes that the murderous violence that has riven our society is driven as much by confusion as by ...
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One of the few world intellectuals on whom we may rely to make sense out of our existential confusion.”—Nadine Gordimer, Identity and Violence, The Illusion of
Jan 5, 2010 · Sen's Identity and Violence is a collection of essays – ranging far and wide in history – that argues for the importance of conceptual clarity ...
May 14, 2006 · The story of Kader Mia surfaces throughout his corpus as a seminal event of his childhood; "Identity and Violence" is simply the work in which ...
Conflict and violence are sustained by the illusion of a unique identity, overlooking the need for reason and choice in deciding on bonds of class, gender, ...
Identity and violence: The illusion of destiny. W W Norton & Co. Abstract. Smashing such stereotypes as "the monolithic Middle East" or "the Western Mind," ...
The illusion of destiny, particularly about some singular identity or other (and their alleged implications), nurtures violence in the world through omissions ...
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Sen argues in his new book that conflict and violence are sustained today, no less than the past, but by the illusion of a unique identity. Indeed, the world is ...
Profound and humane, Amartya Sen's Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny examines some of the most explosive problems of our time and shows how we ...