- I. “Identity Can Be a Complicated Matter”
- 1. Learning the Language of Identity
- Identity Questions: A Lexical Puzzle
- Declaring One’s Identity
- An American Concept
- The Idea of an Identity Crisis
- Identity According to Erikson: An Anthropological Notion
- Identity after Erikson
- A Question of Language
- Plural Identity
- 2. Of What Use Is the Concept of Identity?
- Is There Such a Thing as Identity in This World?
- The Comedy of Identity
- The Principle of Individuation
- The Logic of Proper Names
- Identity Criteria
- Is Identity Relative?
- 1. Learning the Language of Identity
- II. “Who Am I?”
- 3. Identity in the Subjective Sense
- “Who Am I?”
- An Identity at Once Objective and Subjective
- How Can Identity Be Subjectified?
- To Be the Same in One’s Own Eyes
- The Prince and the Cobbler
- Recovering One’s Own Self
- 4. The Disembedded Individual
- The Right of Subjectivity
- To Be or Not to Be Oneself?
- The “Apprenticeship Years”
- Modern Identity
- Exercises in Self-Definition
- Becoming a Modern Individual
- The Future of Individualism
- Expressive Identity
- 3. Identity in the Subjective Sense
- III. “Who Are We?”
- 5. Collective Identities
- “Who Are We?”
- A Linguistic Difficulty
- The Analogy between a Person and a People
- The Logic of Collective Bodies
- The Moral Person as Fictive Person
- The Historical Identity of a City
- A Sociological Definition of the Nation
- The Enigma of Collective Individuality
- 6. The “We” as Instituting Power
- The Individuation of a “We”
- The Composition of a “We”
- The Instituting Power
- Envoi
- 5. Collective Identities
- Works Cited
- Index
INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SCIENCES VIENNA LECTURE SERIES
Puzzling Identities
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