{"product_id":"the-ethics-of-identity","title":"The Ethics of Identity","description":"\u003cp\u003eRace  ethnicity  nationality  religion  gender  sexuality: in the past couple of decades  a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and respect  sometimes at the expense of other things we value. But to what extent do \"identities\" constrain our freedom  our ability to make an individual life  and to what extent do they enable our individuality? In this beautifully written work  renowned philosopher and African Studies scholar Kwame Anthony Appiah draws on thinkers through the ages and across the globe to explore such questions.  The Ethics of Identity takes seriously both the claims of individualitythe task of making a lifeand the claims of identity  these large and often abstract social categories through which we define ourselves.  What sort of life one should lead is a subject that has preoccupied moral and political thinkers from Aristotle to Mill. Here  Appiah develops an account of ethics  in just this venerable sensebut an account that connects moral obligations with collective allegiances  our individuality with our identities. As he observes  the question who we are has always been linked to the question what we are.  Adopting a broadly interdisciplinary perspective  Appiah takes aim at the clichs and received ideas amid which talk of identity so often founders. Is \"culture\" a good? For that matter  does the concept of culture really explain anything? Is diversity of value in itself? Are moral obligations the only kind there are? Has the rhetoric of \"human rights\" been overstretched? In the end  Appiahs arguments make it harder to think of the world as divided between the West and the Rest; between locals and cosmopolitans; between Us and Them. The result is a new vision of liberal humanismone that can accommodate the vagaries and variety that make us human.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964998545461,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691120366","price":28.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691120362.jpg?v=1770486521","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-ethics-of-identity","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}