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<div style="width:220px; float:left;"> <strong
style="color:#930309">Fragments, Frankness </strong><br>
<spam style="color:#930309"> <i style="color:#930309"><span
style="">Jean-Luc Nancy, Translated by François Raffoul</span>
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<span style="line-height:16px;"> ISBN: 9780823256112 <br>
Paperback <br>
Fordham University Press<br>
5 x 7 1/2<br>
64 Pages<br>
October 2014 </span> <br>
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<p><span style="font-style:italic;">Identity: Fragments, Frankness</span><span
style=""> is 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.<br>
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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.”<br>
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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.<br>
Identity is an act, not a state.<br>
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This important book will provide much-needed philosophical
clarification of a complex and strategic notion at the center
of many current events and discussions.</span></p>
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