false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172754871m/212932.jpg 212932 3 <I>In the Name of Identity</I> is as close to summer reading as philosophy gets. It is a personal, sometimes even intimate, account of identity-in-the-world, not a treatise on the thorny metaphysics of identity. A novelist by trade, Amin Maalouf is a fluid writer, and he is aided by Barbara Bray's award-winning translation. His aim is to illuminate the roots of violence and hatred, which he sees in tribalistic forms of identity. He argues that our convictions and notions of identity--whether cultural, religious, national, or ethnic--are socially habituated and frequently dangerous. We'd give them up, he argues, if we thought more closely about them.<p> Though the book has been heralded as radical and surprising, Maalouf essentially espouses an Enlightenment sensibility, a faith in the brotherhood of man. He is a believer in progress, arguing that "the wind of globalisation, while it could lead us to disaster, could also lead us to success." In fact, he envisions a globalized world in which our local identities are subordinated to a broader "allegiance to the human community itself." Maalouf wants us to retain our distinctiveness, but he wants it subsumed under the nave of common understanding. <I>--Eric de Place</I> 1369103 2001 In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong total:124|5:43|4:39|3:28|2:9|1:5| 124 478 186 21 5 1 false false Sun May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Wed Jun 20 12:45:56 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 27 10:46:13 -0700 2007
i really like how he arranged his opinion about the complexity of identity by describing it as a reporter, not directly as a victim. t...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 02 17:31:13 -0800 2009 Wed Apr 01 18:05:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun May 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 16 21:06:37 -0700 2008 Sun May 04 02:31:43 -0700 2008
Really, Maalouf is making "common sense" out of what existentialists, pos...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 16:16:12 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 10:33:00 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Dec 04 14:30:55 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 14:34:30 -0800 2008 1 4 0 false false Mon May 19 22:31:39 -0700 2008 Mon May 19 22:31:39 -0700 2008 Kekerasan dan Ilusi tentang Identitas (lihat rak 'editanku'). Keduanya sama-sama ditulis berdasarkan pengalaman pribadi penulis di tengah mas...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 08 11:56:30 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 24 00:34:12 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 18 06:45:49 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 06:45:59 -0700 2009


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Me thinks Mister Maalouf should stick to historical fiction - he's very, very good at that.]]> 0 0 false false Sat Nov 21 09:28:00 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 09:28:00 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Wed Jul 22 09:59:33 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 21:13:32 -0700 2009 This book was well written. The author is a Lebanese Christian, good speaker of French, probably a Melchite (not a Maronite). He says the Melchites are small in number, so when trouble flares up the prudent thing to do is to leave (say, for New York or Paris...).

The author says...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Apr 17 19:18:01 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 17 19:20:18 -0700 2008 I read it the first time when I was still living in Beirut as I was torn between France and Lebanon.
I read it a second time after moving to the US and settling here and it felt entirely different. This is a g...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Sep 21 09:05:07 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 21 09:19:20 -0700 2008
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manusia berusaha mendominasi yang lainya, merasa pal...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Oct 15 01:22:10 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 15 01:25:13 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Wed Jun 18 22:23:20 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 11 01:11:36 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 18 22:23:20 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Apr 01 11:20:11 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 01 11:21:51 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Tue Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sun Sep 23 01:08:58 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 23 01:11:40 -0700 2007 grouping and moving
human are understandable from science, from their motives
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