Ergebnis für "The Identity Kit" in Soziologie

Unsere Gesellschaft befindet sich in einer Identitätskrise. Alle Systeme, die Sicherheit, Zukunft und Gerechtigkeit versprachen, scheinen versagt zu haben, und nun herrschen Zweifel und Verunsicherung. Identitätskrisen haben einen schrecklichen Ruf. Sie sind anstrengend für alle Beteiligten. Doch sie sind unbedingt notwendig – denn nur so können sich Menschen und Gesellschaften weiterentwickeln. Alice Hasters stellt sich den größten Ängsten der Jetztzeit und bietet einen Ausblick – erhellend, persönlich und vor allem tröstlich.

Over the past decades, a healthy appreciation for the culture and heritage of minorities has transformed into an obsession with group identity in all its forms. A new ideology - which Yascha Mounk terms the 'identity synthesis' - seeks to put each citizen's matrix of identities at the heart of social, cultural and political life. This, he argues, is The Identity Trap. Mounk traces the intellectual origin of these ideas. He tells the story of how they were able to win tremendous power over the past decade.

Whether we aspire to become the best lawyer or charity worker, life partner or celebrity influencer, we emulate exemplars that exist in the world – hoping it will bring us happiness. But this often leads to a complex game of envy and pride. In Against Identity, philosopher Alexander Douglas seeks an alternative wisdom. Searching the work of three thinkers – ancient Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi, Dutch Enlightenment thinker Benedict de Spinoza, and 20th Century French theorist René Girard – he explores how identity can be a spiritual violence that leads us away from truth.

A powerful exploration of the past and present arc of America’s white supremacy—from the country’s inception and Revolutionary years to its 19th century flashpoint of civil war; to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and today’s Black Lives Matter. “The most profoundly original...