Identity: Contemporary Identity Politics and the Struggle for Recognition - Couverture rigide

Fukuyama, Francis

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1781259801 ISBN 13 : 9781781259801

Editeur : Profile Books Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

The divisive impacts of identity politics laid bare by the bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order and The End of History

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Francis Fukuyama is the author of The End of History, The Great Disruption, Our Posthuman Future, State Building,After the Neocons, The Origins of Political Order and Political Order and Political Decay. All have been hugely influential international bestsellers, translated and published in many languages. He is Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

In 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American and global institutions were in a state of decay, as the state was captured by powerful interest groups. Two years later, his predictions were borne out by the rise to power of a series of political outsiders whose economic nationalism and authoritarian tendencies threatens to destabilise the entire international order. These populist nationalists seek direct charismatic connection to 'the people', who are usually defined in narrow identity terms that offer an irresistible call to an in-group and exclude large parts of the population as a whole.

The demands of identity direct much of what is going on in world politics today. The universal recognition on which liberal democracy is based has been increasingly challenged by restrictive forms of recognition based on nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, or gender, which have resulted in anti-immigrant populism, the upsurge of politicised Islam, the fractious environment of many college campuses, and the hideous emergence of white nationalism.

Identity is an urgent and necessary book: a sharp warning that unless we forge a universal understanding of human dignity, we will doom ourselves to continual conflict.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Profile Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1781259801
• ISBN 13: 9781781259801
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible