Issues of identity are front and center in our time. Old certainties are, for some, antique; and for others, they represent the one thing to hold on to for dear life as essences become contingent or fragmented. I am deeply interested in the matter, and some years ago, for a thesis project, I poked around research on identity. I was ultimately dissuaded by one of my professors who said — and rightly so — that work on identity theory was just too fuzzy. I did write about the subject but in a very specific sense involving cricket and Indian identity (a different story for another time).
On Identity, via Kwame Appiah
On Identity, via Kwame Appiah
On Identity, via Kwame Appiah
Issues of identity are front and center in our time. Old certainties are, for some, antique; and for others, they represent the one thing to hold on to for dear life as essences become contingent or fragmented. I am deeply interested in the matter, and some years ago, for a thesis project, I poked around research on identity. I was ultimately dissuaded by one of my professors who said — and rightly so — that work on identity theory was just too fuzzy. I did write about the subject but in a very specific sense involving cricket and Indian identity (a different story for another time).