Identity and Violence

Critics

• Thinking out of the box

  Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny by Amartya Sen 240pp, Allen Lane, £16.99 Similar experiences can produce very different philosophies. Witnessing the Russian revolution as a child in Petrograd, Isaiah Berlin saw a crowd dragging off a s ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• Sorting out the selves

  There are few pleasures more reassuring than that of disagreement with some of the contents of a book that is closely argued, extremely well-written and clearly the work of a highly civilised, cultivated and decent man. Such a pleasure is reassuring ... (read full critics)

  spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

2 Reviews

• Perspective on why we fight!

  Slightly heavy! But surely deep insight into reasons of violence....

  Amratya sense argues that we give ourselves different identities without realizing that we dont have any single identity.

  For example... being Manchester United fan is different from being a Arsenal fan.... This diffe ... (continue)

  Slightly heavy! But surely deep insight into reasons of violence....

  Amratya sense argues that we give ourselves different identities without realizing that we dont have any single identity.

  For example... being Manchester United fan is different from being a Arsenal fan.... This difference is because we have given different identity to ourselves trying to belong to a particular group.... We tend to forget these two fans are from london.. there is a hatred.. which is the cause of violence...

  Its only matter of degrees.. A terrorist gives himself an identity belonging to a particular group.. but forgets his original identity of also being a human...

  If we want to avoid this violence we must understand that we don't a single identity at any moment... we have multiple identities ..to avoid any hatred.. we must identify ourselves as human first!

  Interesting.. deep & compelling !

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  Reading-is-pleasure said on Sep 23, 2008 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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  I like Amartya Sen's theories very much, but the book is just not as good as his other works. Also it is a little be repetitive.

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  Lynn said on May 12, 2007 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 240 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0713999381
• ISBN-13: 9780713999389
• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Pub date: Aug 03, 2006
• Also available as: Hardcover

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