03243nam 22004815 450 991015860620332120230906190940.01-61811-535-910.1515/9781618115355(CKB)3710000001010348(MiAaPQ)EBC4568901(DE-B1597)541140(OCoLC)957077834(DE-B1597)9781618115355(EXLCZ)99371000000101034820191221d2016 fg engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierReflections on Identity The Jewish Case /Avi SagiBoston, MA :Academic Studies Press,[2016]©20161 online resource (224 pages)Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah"This volume contains three chapters that were previously published in a Hebrew volume, but, otherwise, it is original and was not previously published in full elsewhere"--Publisher's email.1-61811-534-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Preface --Part One --Chapter 1: From an Essentialist to a Multicultural Identity --Chapter 2: A Critique of the Jewish Identity Discourse --Chapter 3: Primordial Identity: The Jewish Case --Part Two --Chapter 4: Between a Rights Discourse and an Identity Discourse --Chapter 5: "Religion and State": A Critical Analysis --Chapter 6: On Exile, Strangers, and Sovereignty: Identity in the Biblical Tradition --Bibliography --Sources --IndexTwo basic approaches have shaped the identity discourse since antiquity. The essentialist view assumes that a person's identity does exist "somewhere," and the discourse on identity is an attempt to disclose it. People do not create their identity, they only realize it. The opposite, deconstructionist view, assumes that the identity is only a linguistic fiction; we have no identity outside our concrete history, which reflects a constantly ongoing dynamic change. The present book offers a third option. It accepts that identity is not a priori datum that precedes our existence but claims we do have a set historical cultural identity it calls "primary," expressing a permanent foundation of our biography. On its basis, we build our concrete identity. Engaging in a critical analysis, the book exposes the foundations and the borders of the identity field. As a test case that illustrates its claims, it presents the discourse on Jewish identity. Lively, vigorous, and widely recorded, this discourse conveys many nuances of the tension between continuity and change and is thus uniquely fit to convey the significance of the identity discourse.Emunot.JewsIdentityPhilosophyJewsIdentityPhilosophy.305.892/4Sagi Abrahamauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut.1097613Stein Batya852864DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910158606203321Reflections on Identity3456697UNINA