LEADER 03243nam 22004815 450 001 9910158606203321 005 20230906190940.0 010 $a1-61811-535-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9781618115355 035 $a(CKB)3710000001010348 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4568901 035 $a(DE-B1597)541140 035 $a(OCoLC)957077834 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781618115355 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001010348 100 $a20191221d2016 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aReflections on Identity $eThe Jewish Case /$fAvi Sagi 210 1$aBoston, MA :$cAcademic Studies Press,$d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (224 pages) 225 0 $aEmunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah 300 $a"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. 311 $a1-61811-534-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tPreface --$tPart One --$tChapter 1: From an Essentialist to a Multicultural Identity --$tChapter 2: A Critique of the Jewish Identity Discourse --$tChapter 3: Primordial Identity: The Jewish Case --$tPart Two --$tChapter 4: Between a Rights Discourse and an Identity Discourse --$tChapter 5: "Religion and State": A Critical Analysis --$tChapter 6: On Exile, Strangers, and Sovereignty: Identity in the Biblical Tradition --$tBibliography --$tSources --$tIndex 330 $aTwo basic approaches have shaped the identity discourse since antiquity. The essentialist view assumes that a person's identity does exist "somewhere," and the discourse on identity is an attempt to disclose it. People do not create their identity, they only realize it. The opposite, deconstructionist view, assumes that the identity is only a linguistic fiction; we have no identity outside our concrete history, which reflects a constantly ongoing dynamic change. The present book offers a third option. It accepts that identity is not a priori datum that precedes our existence but claims we do have a set historical cultural identity it calls "primary," expressing a permanent foundation of our biography. On its basis, we build our concrete identity. Engaging in a critical analysis, the book exposes the foundations and the borders of the identity field. As a test case that illustrates its claims, it presents the discourse on Jewish identity. Lively, vigorous, and widely recorded, this discourse conveys many nuances of the tension between continuity and change and is thus uniquely fit to convey the significance of the identity discourse. 410 0$aEmunot. 606 $aJews$xIdentity$xPhilosophy 615 0$aJews$xIdentity$xPhilosophy. 676 $a305.892/4 700 $aSagi$b Abraham$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut.$01097613 701 $aStein$b Batya$0852864 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910158606203321 996 $aReflections on Identity$93456697 997 $aUNINA