TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lebow, Richard Ned.
TI  - The politics and ethics of identity: in search of ourselves
SN  - 9781107675575
U1  - 320.01/9LEB 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Political psychology
N1  - Includes bibliographical references ( p. 329-414) and index
N2  - We are multiple, fragmented, and changing selves who, nevertheless, believe we have unique and consistent identities. What accounts for this illusion? Why has the problem of identity become so central in post-war scholarship, fiction, and the media? Following Hegel, Richard Ned Lebow contends that the defining psychological feature of modernity is the tension between our reflexive and social selves. To address this problem Westerners have developed four generic strategies of identity construction that are associated with four distinct political orientations. Lebow develops his arguments through comparative analysis of ancient and modern literary, philosophical, religious, and musical texts. He asks how we might come to terms with the fragmented and illusionary nature of our identities and explores some political and ethical implications of doing so
ER  -