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Questions of identity and identification are among the most important evolving concerns of contemporary cultural studies. Through processes of personal identification with discursively constructed subject positions, identities emerge across a wide range of cultural practices in the course of social interactions involving the use of language and other semiotic systems manifested in cultural artefacts of various kinds. The present collection includes a selection of papers on the topic of identi

As a young lecturer in philosophy and the eldest son of a prominent Jewish family, Alan Montefiore faced two very different understandings of his identity: the more traditional view that an identity such as his carries with it, as a matter of given fact, certain duties and obligations, and an opposing view, emphasized by his studies in philosophy, in which there can be no rationally compelling move from statements of fact-whatever those facts may be-to "judgments of value." According to this second view, in the end it is up to individuals to determine their own values and obligations. In this book, Montefiore looks back on his attempts to come to a deeper understanding of this conflict and the misunderstandings it may engender, illustrating through personal experiences the practical implications of a characteristically philosophical issue. He finally settles on the following: while everyone has to accept that facts, including those of their own situation, are whatever they may be, both the 'traditional' assumption that individuals have to recognize certain values and obligations as rooted in those very facts and the contrary view that individuals are ultimately responsible for determining their own values are deeply embedded in differing conceptions of society and its relation to its members. Montefiore then examines the misunderstandings between those who view identity as a conceptual bridge connecting the facts of who and what a person may be to the value commitments incumbent upon them, and those for whom the very idea of such a bridge can be nothing but a confusion. Using key examples from the notoriously vexed case of Jewish identity and from his own encounters with its conflicting meanings and implications, Montefiore depicts the practical significance of these differing worldviews, particularly for those who must negotiate them.

David Boonin presents a new account of the non-identity problem: a puzzle about our obligations to people who do not yet exist. He provides a critical survey of solutions to the problem that have been proposed, and concludes by developing an unorthodox alternative solution, one that differs fundamentally from virtually every other approach.

Who Defines Me: Negotiating Identity in Language and Literature is a collection of insightful articles that represent an interdisciplinary study of identity. The articles start from the premise that identity is, and always has been, unstable and mutable; which is to say that identity is constructed and deconstructed and reconstructed - only to be deconstructed and reconstructed again, in turn to be deconstructed and reconstructed (and so on ad infinitum). Time and place are variables. So, too

Personal identity, personal ontology, and ethics -- The simple-soul approach and dualisms -- Buddhist no-self approach and nihilism -- Relational approach and Confucian role-person -- Locke and the psychological approach -- The physical approach and animalism -- Practical and narrative approaches -- What matters in survival and life-extending technologies -- The beginning and the end.

This book approaches the concept of identity from both logical-linguistic and socio-cultural perspectives, and explores its implications for our understanding of who or what we persons really are. In the process, it bridges disciplines that often remain disconnected - most notably analytic philosophy and the social sciences - and offers a novel critique of citizenship and moral education, ""identity politics"", and other contemporary domains of inquiry. Although the book has a multi-disciplinary focus, it is philosophical in its overall orientation (but accessible to readers from outside philo

As a young lecturer in philosophy and the eldest son of a prominent Jewish family, Alan Montefiore faced two very different understandings of his identity: the more traditional view that an identity such as his carries with it, as a matter of given fact, certain duties and obligations, and an opposing view, emphasized by his studies in philosophy, in which there can be no rationally compelling move from statements of fact-whatever those facts may be-to "judgments of value." According to this second view, in the end it is up to individuals to determine their own values and obligations.

Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Transcripts -- Conceptual Framings of Identity in a Multifaceted World -- 1 Many Ways-of-Being Across Sites. Identity as (Inter)action -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Identity and Identity-Positions in Global North Mass-Media Sites -- 1.2.1 A Contemporary Mass-Media Example Across Physical-Digital Sites: Elise By Olsen -- 1.2.2 Identifications Across Physical-Digital Mass-Media Sites -- 1.3 A Selective Overview of Research into Identity -- 1.4 Many-ways-of-Being. Identity, Decoloniality -- References -- Ref Elise By Olsen http://www.ink-live.com/emagazines/norwegian-magazine/1978/july-2015/#1/z -- 2 Positioning Theory and Life-Story Interviews: Discursive Fields, Gaze and Resistance -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Positioning Theory -- 2.3 Extending Positioning Theory -- 2.4 More Thoughts and Conclusion -- References -- 3 Refusing What We Are: Communicating Counter-Identities and Prefiguring Social Change in Social Movements -- 3.1 Revisiting Identity -- 3.2 Governmentality and Counter-Conduct -- 3.3 Prefiguration and Identity -- 3.4 Discourse, Governmentality and Counter-Identities -- 3.5 Case Study: "United Nathans Weapons Inspectors" -- 3.5.1 From Customers to Inspectors -- 3.5.2 Doing Being 'Mock Inspectors' -- 3.5.3 Analytics of Protest -- 3.5.4 Governing Inspection: Counter-Identities -- 3.6 Conclusion -- References -- 4 Center-Staging Language and Identity Research from Earthrise Positions. Contextualizing Performances in Open Spaces -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.1.1 Two Dominant Views -- 4.1.2 Going Beyond Binary Hegemonic Positions -- 4.1.3 Aims and Chapter Structure -- 4.2 Critical Humanistic Socially Oriented Conceptual Framings -- 4.2.1 A Note on Alternative Epistemologies and Research Agendas

These two complementary works give the reader a unique insight into the breadth and substance of Kierkegaard's thought. One reads like a novel and the other a Platonic dialogue but both concern the nature of love, faith, and happiness. These are the first translations to convey the literary quality and philosophical precision of the originals.

This work presents John Finnis's accounts of personal existence ; group identity and common good; and the moral significance of personal intention. Joining conceptual analysis with ethical problems surrounding the beginning and end of life, the papers show the power of a neglected aspect of Finnis's natural law theory