Body and Identity: A History of the Empty Self - Couverture rigide

Franks, Angela

 
9780268209681: Body and Identity: A History of the Empty Self
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0268209685 ISBN 13 : 9780268209681
Editeur : University of Notre Dame Press, 2025

Synopsis

Angela Franks provides a sweeping intellectual history of identity, particularly in terms of how identity relates to the body, with an emphasis on the importance of Christianity to this understanding.

Modern questions about our bodies and how we see ourselves are often complex and problematic. To better answer these contemporary questions and navigate "identity politics," Angela Franks seeks to provide a better understanding of identity. She begins by giving three basic meanings of the term: identity through time, the "true" or authentic self, and our awareness of ourselves. She engages with thinkers from antiquity to present day and investigates the decisive developments that Christianity provided. Within Christianity came a new awareness of the distinctive individuality of each person—the "true self"—called by God in a way that often breaks away from the "solid" or fixed structures of identity formation, such as family, class, and nation. This more "liquid" idea of identity continues to evolve in modern times, though without its theistic emphasis on God's call. The result is a purely liquid self that consists of consciousness and activity, but without a grounded self that is either the object or the subject of consciousness. This is the empty self we have today, one that is given much more to do and less to be.

A comprehensive history of identity, Body and Identity brings the theological history of the self to the forefront in order to address the empty self and how identity is defined today.

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À propos de l'auteur

Angela Franks is an assistant professor of theology at the Catholic University of America.

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Éditeur
University of Notre Dame Press
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0268209685
ISBN 13 
9780268209681
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
414
Coordonnées du fabricant
University of Notre Dame Press
https://www.nd.edu/

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