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Smashing such stereotypes as the monolithic Middle East or the Western Mind, Amartya Sen examines the much-misunderstood concept of identity.
The world may be more riven by murderous violence than ever before; yet Amartya Sen, the galvanizing Nobel Laureate, proposes in this sweeping philosophical work that the brutalities are driven as much by confusion as by inescapable hatred. Conflict and violence are sustained by the illusion of a unique identity, overlooking the need for reason and choice in deciding on bonds of class, gender, profession, scientific interests, moral beliefs, and even our shared identity as human beings. Challenging the reductionist view that people of the world can be partitioned into little boxes in terms of civilizational categories, Sen draws on history, economics, science, literature, and his own memories of difficult as well as easy times on three continents to present an inspiring vision of a world that can be made to move toward peace as firmly as it has spiraled in recent years toward violence and war.
About the series: Issues of Our Time: Aware of the competition for the attention of readers, W. W. Norton & Company and I have created the Issues of Our Time as a lucid series of highly readable books through which some of todays most thoughtful intellectuals seek to challenge the general reader to reexamine received truths and grapple with powerful trends that are shaping the world in which we live. The series launches with Anthony Appiah, Alan Dershowitz, and Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen as the first of an illustrious group who will tackle some of the most plangent and central issues defining our society today through books that deal with such issues as sexual and racial identities, the economics of the developing world, and the concept of citizenship in a truly globalized twenty-first-century world culture. Above all else, these books are designed to be read and enjoyed.Henry Louis Gates Jr., W. E. B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University

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Amartya Sen is just the person to write about the politics of identity and its dangers.... Identity and Violence is a moving, powerful essay about the mischief of bad ideas.

Economist

Identity and Violence identifies the positive public action that is needed to make the world a better place.

George Soros

Sen has been perhaps the worlds most distinguished analyst of the welfare of the poor people over the past three decades.... He includes a short, deft and persuasive discussion of economic globalization.... Sen is especially perceptive about the educational folly that has seized the present British government.

Alan Ryan, New York Review of Books

Amartya Sen is uniquely qualified to explore this central conundrum of our time. From 1947, when he witnessed the explosive identity violence of Indias partition, to the identity savagery I witnessed in Bosnia and Rwanda, Palestine and Sudan, and now the war between extreme Islam and the West, our world cries out for solutions. Amartya Sen challenges and sets conventional wisdom on its head as he finds new answers.

Christiane Amanpour, CNN

Amartya Sen provides a lucid and convincing critique of current trends in communitarian and culturalist thinking, underlining for us in a way that only a scholar of his background and learning can of the complexity and multidimensionality of modern identity.

Francis Fukuyama

An eloquent and brilliantly argued indictment of violence perpetrated in the name of what Sen persuasively characterizes as illusory beliefs in unique ethnic, religious, and other identities.

Sissela Bok, author of Mayhem: Violence as Public Entertainment and Common Values

Sen provides critical insight at a critical time. Identity and Violence reveals the complexities by which people define themselves, it shows a great understanding of parts of the world that have been otherwise boxed into monochromatic stereotypes, and from this nuanced discussion arises a more accurate way of discussing identities, violence, and the route to a more peaceful world. This book is a gift to the current discourse on war and peace, and Sens personal narratives and observations continue to endow intellectual theory with a vital dose of humanity.

Zainab Salbi, president of Women for Women International and author of Between Two Worlds

Sens essay makes clear the many inaccuracies and inadequacies of those theories, as well as the dangers of putting them into practice. Sen brilliantly shows that when our public policies and attitudes are guided by one-dimensional simplifications of complex societies, we may unwittingly empower the most extreme and least tolerant members of those societies.

Jeffrey Sachs

The Harvard-based Indian economist Amartya Sen has produced a wonderful, richly personal book-length essay on identity and violence, dismantling the claim that strong identities must be single, exclusive and defended by violence.

Timothy Garton Ash, The Guardian (London)

[Identity and Violence] is... elegantly written, powerful, convincing, humane, and necessary... we need to avoid falling into precisely the trap that Osama Bin Laden has deliberately laid for us: to divide the world into Muslim and non-Muslim.

Robert Kagan

Religion perceived as an absolute identity with no shades of gray is privileged over any and all other human categories and raised as a banner under which not just nations but cultures, equally monolithic, must clash. Drawing on his sophisticated understanding of history and politics as well as economics, Sen reasonably shows such characterizations to be grounded in ignorance of both the past and the present.

Amanda Heller, Boston Globe

Also by Amartya Sen

Choice of Techniques

Collective Choice and Social Welfare

On Economic Inequality

Poverty and Famines

Choice, Welfare, and Measurement

Resources, Values, and Development

Commodities and Capabilities

On Ethics and Economics

Inequality Reexamined

Development as Freedom

Rationality and Freedom

The Argumentative Indian

Issues of Our Time

O urs has been called an information age, but, though information has never been more plentiful, ideas are what shape and reshape our world. Issues of Our Time is a series of books in which some of todays leading thinkers explore ideas that matter in the new millennium. The authorsbeginning with the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah, the lawyer and legal scholar Alan Dershowitz, and the Nobel Prizewinning economist Amartya Senhonor clarity without shying away from complexity; these books are both genuinely engaged and genuinely engaging. Each recognizes the importance not just of our values but also of the way we resolve the conflicts among those values. Law, justice, identity, morality, and freedom: concepts such as these are at once abstract and utterly close to home. Our understanding of them helps define who we are and who we hope to be; we are made by what we make of them. These are books, accordingly, that invite the reader to reexamine hand-me-down assumptions and to grapple with powerful trends. Whether you are moved to reason together with these authors, or to argue with them, they are sure to leave your views tested, if not changed. The perspectives of the authors in this series are diverse, the voices are distinctive, the issues are vital.

HENRY LOUIS GATES JR SERIES EDITOR W E B DU BOIS PROFESSOR OF THE - photo 2

HENRY LOUIS GATES JR., SERIES EDITOR
W. E. B. DU BOIS PROFESSOR OF THE HUMANITIES
HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Issues of Our Time Other titles KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH Cosmopolitanism - photo 3

Issues of Our Time

Other titles

KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH

Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers

ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ

Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways

CHARLES FRIED

Modern Liberty: And the Limits of Government

Forthcoming authors

WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON

LOUIS MENAND

CLAUDE STEELE

AMY GUTMANN

NICK LEMANN

ROLAND FRYER

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IDENTITY AND VIOLENCE

THE ILLUSION OF DESTINY

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Copyright 2006 by Amartya Sen

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First published as a Norton paperback 2007

Excerpts from A Far Cry from Africa and Names from Collected Poems 19481984 by Derek Walcott. Copyright 1986 by Derek Walcott. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Reprinted in the United Kingdom, the British Commonwealth, and the European Union by permission of Faber and Faber, Ltd. Excerpt from A Plea for Less Malice Toward None by Ogden Nash. Copyright 1933 by Ogden Nash. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.

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