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Liberalism, Nationalism and Identity
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Poole, Ross |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Description | Humans are, as Charles Taylor (1985, ch. 2) has suggested, 'self-interpreting animals'. I take this to mean that the selves which we are – and which each of us is – are formed through the ways in which we interpret (and misinterpret) ourselves. Of course, we do not create for ourselves the conceptual resources we employ in these self-interpretations. They are provided for us by the forms of life within which we live. These self-conceptions – these identities – give us a perspective on the world, a sense of the past and the future – and in particular a sense of our past and our future. They provide us with the values and standards on which we judge and act. An identity defines a perspective on the world and our place in it. It is because we understand the world in a certain way that it has a certain pertinence to us. It calls upon us – or those who have the appropriate identity – to act in one way rather than another. It is because an identity defines a world that it is also a mode of agency. Book Name: Nationalism and Racism in the Liberal Order |
| Related Links | https://api.taylorfrancis.com/content/chapters/edit/download?identifierName=doi&identifierValue=10.4324/9780429449802-4&type=chapterpdf |
| Ending Page | 60 |
| Page Count | 9 |
| Starting Page | 52 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780429449802-4 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2018-10-26 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Nationalism and Racism in the Liberal Order Cultural Studies Nationalism Taylor Animals Pertinence Liberalism |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
