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Les Identités meurtrières
231 pages
An elegant, urgent plea to embrace the messy, beautiful complexity of who we are rather than shrinking into dangerous tribalism.
What it feels like
Reading this book feels like sitting with a wise, deeply empathetic mentor who is patiently untangling the knots of human conflict. The prose is lucid and personal, moving at a steady, deliberate pace that allows the reader to fully digest its profound philosophical questions. It creates an atmosphere that is at once sobering and expansive, grounding abstract concepts of sociology and history in the warm, lived experience of a writer straddling multiple cultures. There is an urgent, compassionate heartbeat beneath the intellectual rigor. It will deeply delight readers who crave thoughtful, essayistic explorations of belonging and globalism, ultimately leaving them with a more nuanced, hopeful, and forgiving view of themselves and the fractured world around them.
- Mood
- contemplative
- sobering
- expansive
- empathetic
- Tone
- earnest
- thoughtful
- urgent
- compassionate
- lucid
- Pace
- steady
- Themes
- cultural hybridity · the illusion of singular identity · dangers of tribalism · belonging and alienation · the complexity of self
- The writing
- Elegant, lucid, and deeply personal, blending rigorous philosophical inquiry with warm autobiographical reflection.
- The arc
- Moves from a sobering examination of historical and modern tribal violence to a hopeful, expansive plea for embracing multifaceted human complexity.
- Who it's for
- Readers who crave accessible, deeply humanistic essays on sociology, globalism, and the intricate tapestry of cultural belonging.
Content notes
- discussions of sectarian violence
- racism and xenophobia
- religious extremism
About the book
"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."--BOOK JACKET
Description: 133 p.; 20 cm.
Description from Open Library.
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