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Against Identity: The Wisdom of Escaping the Self, de Alexander Douglas.
Reviews:
"A thought experiment underpins the book’s concerns: how many of our markers of identity truly constitute us? It is akin to Locke’s distinction between primary and secondary characteristics. For Locke, erroneously, something like colour or dimension was secondary: a sphere can be red or green, have a diameter of a millimetre of a mile, without affecting its intrinsic sphere-ness. How many of our characteristics – Douglas lists, among others, ethnicity, politics, clothing, sports teams, opinions on metaphysics – can we change without changing our elusive “self”?"
https://www.scotsman.com/news/book-review-against-identity-by-alexander-douglas-5210001"In Against Identity, philosopher Alexander Douglas asks a provocative question: is identity itself both an illusion and a dangerous imposition? In an age where individual identity is sacred and we are desperately polarised over identity politics, this line of thinking is perhaps the ultimate taboo.
Douglas argues the invention of identity is both a tragic and a universal story, linking together the seemingly improbable combination of the ancient Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi, 18th century Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza and the 20th century Catholic thinker René Girard."
https://thecritic.co.uk/trapped-in-an-identity-crisis/#
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