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A reader posted a review at 2009-11-02 05:33:38.
(Language: English)
 
For the most part very thought-provoking. The best parts, literary-wise, are maybe the personal anecdotes. Bad parts: He does grow somewhat repetitive, and the chapter on the anti-globalization movement is an attack on a straw man. 
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A reader posted a review at 2009-07-08 09:14:33.
(Language: English)
"You can choose your own identity" is one of the key points of this book by economic Nobel winning scolar Amartya Sen. But what about the social conditions of identity formation? It is not self-evident that you can choose autonomously your identity in every social situation. If people are being humiliated, disrespected or denigrated it is virtually imposible to construct a positive relation to yourself as Axel Honneth writes in his famous Struggle for Recognition. Maybe it is good to emphasize ones ability to choose his/her identity as a pedagogical strategy so that people would question the nationalist or fundamentalist identies that causes violence. It is also important to see in what social conditions "autonomous" identity formation is realistically possible for example through education. Sen criticized for example Charles Taylor for overemphasizing the social dependens of human identity. It seems however Sen have not understood very well Taylors thinking.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-02-09 15:09:07.
(Language: English)
This was, in my opinion, not the best book. It certainly wasn't the worst, but it could have been better. For instance, it could have actually given a frakking solution. Sen convincingly demonstrated that identity causes problems, but that's not enough. How about a solution? Or is that too much?
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Binil /ബിനില്/ V J posted a review at 2008-12-24 23:34:44.
(Language: English)
In todays globally interconnected world help you see ppl better. An analysis showing how our identities ties us together, confuse and make conflicts. From terrorism, spread of knowledge in ancient world, diversity of Islamic way of life, issues in Cosmopolitan soceity, globalisation, Justice it covers a vast vareity of topic
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A reader posted a review at 2008-10-11 15:23:46.
(Language: English)
A enlightening book teaching us that we have very often and in many points a wrong conception of that, what someone can call identity. And wrong perceptions of this lead to violence.
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A reader posted a review at 2008-07-17 07:19:54.
(Language: English)
Amartya Sen writes so wisely about culture and context
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Vivek posted a review at 2008-07-01 17:38:00.
(Language: English)
excellent idea but too much repetition
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A reader posted a review at 2008-06-19 00:46:06.
(Language: English)
What can I say? Amartya Sen authored it, it's spectacular, makes you think of those things you never got your mind into.
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A reader posted a review at 2008-06-15 20:49:40.
(Language: English)
Not very insightful. For a deeper analysis of identity and culture try Homi K. Bhabha Nation and Narrations.
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battel d'esprit pour le roi posted a review at 2008-06-11 07:32:55.
(Language: English)
A truth , which world has to follow!
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