Critique of Identity Thinking

Critique of Identity ThinkingRecent world wide political developments have persuaded many people that we are again living in what Hannah Arendt called dark times. Jacksons response to this age of uncertainty is to remind us how much experience falls outside the concepts and categories we habitually deploy in rendering life manageable and intelligible. Drawing on such critical thinkers as Hannah Arendt, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and Karl Jaspers, whose work was profoundly

the spread of smallpox to Native Americans during the French and Indian War is known to every schoolchild

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a daughter who "…plants her feet on mine … laughing backwards" to a wife's full moon face

art collecting and mythography

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and information related to developing areas of research and practice

leading researchers and practitioners from a variety of institutions and departments

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Uses two case studies to demonstrate how neoliberal reforms in India have de-democratized labor politics

and where playful competition incites serious consequences

This chapter examines the different sustainability initiatives and their social

with David Farrell Krell delivering original readings of Homer's Iliad