Name: Die Identitätsfalle
ISBN: 9783406558122

Amartya Kumar Sen

warum es keinen Krieg der Kulturen gibt

Die Identitätsfalle

Amartya Sen

Arguing that the violence of today's world is as much as factor of misunderstanding as it is of cultural differences, a Nobel Laureate explains that modern conflicts have origins in illusions about identity, morality, and other factors, in an account that presents the author's vision of how the world can move toward peace. Reprint.

Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (Issues of Our Time)

Gavin

Nice but repetitive. In one ugly sentence ‘how overlooking intersectionality ruins worldviews and gets folks killed’. He repeats this idea fifty times or so, but it’s a fine one. 

It’s stats-free but I mostly trust him, he’s proved his mastery. “Widespread interest in global inequalities, of which anti-globalization protests are a part, [is the] embodiment of what Hume was talking about in his claim that closer economic relations would bring distant people within the reach of a ‘gradual enlargement of our regards to justice’.”– neat, catching the antithesis in the thesis.

I don’t get on with Sen’s prose: he’s clear and warm but studied in a way that chafes me.

Die Identitätsfalle warum es keinen Krieg der Kulturen gibt