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  • Published: 1 August 2002
  • ISBN: 9781860467295
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $29.99
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On Identity




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 reflections, the author, a Lebanese who now lives in France, where he is a well-known writer and commentator, considers how we define ourselves and how identity is understood in the world's different cultures.

  • Published: 1 August 2002
  • ISBN: 9781860467295
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $29.99
Categories:

About the author

Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf's fiction includes Leo the African, Rock of Tanios, which won the 1993 Prix Goncourt, Samarkand, Ports of Call and Balthasar's Odyssey. He is also the author of an acclaimed scholarly work, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, as well as the much admired essay, On Identity.

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Praise for On Identity

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