TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jackson,Michael
TI  - Critique of Identity Thinking
SN  - 9781789202823
U1  - 126 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Civilization, Modern
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Existentialism
KW  - Identity (Philosophical concept)
KW  - Identity (Psychology)
KW  - Philosophical anthropology
KW  - Philosophy and social sciences
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Dark Times
KW  - Hannah Arendt
KW  - Karl Jaspers
KW  - Theodor Adorno
KW  - Wlater Benjamin
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. Mistaken Identities: The Task of Thinking in Dark Times --; Chapter 2. Radical Empiricism and the Little Things of Life --; Chapter 3. The Witch as a Category and as a Person --; Chapter 4. The New Materialisms --; Chapter 5. Words and Deeds --; Chapter 6. Critique of Cultural Fundamentalism --; Chapter 7. Existential Scarcity and Ethical Sensibility --; Chapter 8. Identification and Description: An Essay on Metaphor --; Chapter 9. Islam and Identity among the Kuranko --; Chapter 10. In Defense of Existential Anthropology --; Notes --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Recent world-wide political developments have persuaded many people that we are again living in what Hannah Arendt called “dark times.” Jackson’s response to this age of uncertainty is to remind us how much experience falls outside the concepts and categories we habitually deploy in rendering life manageable and intelligible.  Drawing on such critical thinkers as Hannah Arendt, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and Karl Jaspers, whose work was profoundly influenced by the catastrophes that overwhelmed the world in the middle of the last century, Jackson explores the transformative and redemptive power of marginalized voices in the contemporary conversation of humankind
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789202830?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781789202830
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781789202830/original
ER  -