Enigmas of identity /

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Author / Creator:	Brooks, Peter, 1938-
Imprint:	Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, ©2011.
Description:	1 online resource (226 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Group identity. Group identity. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11103717

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ISBN:	9781400839698 1400839696 9780691151588 069115158X 1283227444 9781283227445 9786613227447 6613227447
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-215) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	"We know that it matters crucially to be able to say who we are, why we are here, and where we are going," Peter Brooks writes in Enigmas of Identity. Many of us are also uncomfortably aware that we cannot provide a convincing account of our identity to others or even ourselves. Despite or because of that failure, we keep searching for identity, making it up, trying to authenticate it, and inventing excuses for our unpersuasive stories about it. This wide-ranging book draws on literature, law, and psychoanalysis to examine important aspects of the emergence of identity as a peculiarly modern preoccupation.
Other form:	Print version: Brooks, Peter, 1938- Enigmas of identity. Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, ©2011 9780691151588

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