[D66] Identity,Fragments, Frankness

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  Identity

*Fragments, Frankness *
/Jean-Luc Nancy, Translated by François Raffoul /

ISBN: 9780823256112
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Fordham University Press
5 x 7 1/2
64 Pages
October 2014
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Identity

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Identity: Fragments, Franknessis a rich and powerful essay on the notion
of identity and on how it operates in our contemporary world. In
contrast to the various attempts to cling to established identities or
to associate identity with dubious agendas, Nancy shows that an identity
is always open to alterity and its transformations.

Against cynical initiatives that seek to instrumentalize the question of
identity in an attempt to manipulate sentiment against immigration,
Nancy problematizes anew the notions of identity, nation, and national
identity. He seeks to show that there is never a given identity but
always an open process of identification that retains an exposure to
difference. Thus identity can never operate as a self-identical subject,
such as “the French.”

Ultimately, for Nancy, one does not have an identity but has to become
one. One can never return to a self-same identity but can only seek to
locate oneself within difference and singularity. Nancy shows the
impasse of a certain conception of identity that he calls the “identity
of the identifiable,” which refers to some permanent, given, substantial
identity. In opposition to such identity, Nancy offers the identity of
whatever or whoever invents itself in an open process of exposure to
others and internal difference. Hence, an identity is never given but
“makes itself by seeking and inventing itself.” One does not have an
identity, but is an identity.
Identity is an act, not a state.

This important book will provide much-needed philosophical clarification
of a complex and strategic notion at the center of many current events
and discussions.

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