
Identity
The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
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Narrated by:
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P. J. Ochlan
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By:
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Francis Fukuyama
The New York Times best-selling author of The Origins of Political Order offers a provocative examination of modern identity politics: its origins, its effects, and what it means for domestic and international affairs of state
In 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American institutions were in decay, as the state was progressively captured by powerful interest groups. Two years later, his predictions were borne out by the rise to power of a series of political outsiders whose economic nationalism and authoritarian tendencies threatened to destabilize the entire international order. These populist nationalists seek direct charismatic connection to “the people”, who are usually defined in narrow identity terms that offer an irresistible call to an in-group and exclude large parts of the population as a whole.
Demand for recognition of one’s identity is a master concept that unifies much of what is going on in world politics today. The universal recognition on which liberal democracy is based has been increasingly challenged by narrower forms of recognition based on nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, or gender, which have resulted in anti-immigrant populism, the upsurge of politicized Islam, the fractious “identity liberalism” of college campuses, and the emergence of white nationalism. Populist nationalism, said to be rooted in economic motivation, actually springs from the demand for recognition and therefore cannot simply be satisfied by economic means. The demand for identity cannot be transcended; we must begin to shape identity in a way that supports rather than undermines democracy.
Identity is an urgent and necessary book - a sharp warning that unless we forge a universal understanding of human dignity, we will doom ourselves to continuing conflict.
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Masterfully written
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Yes it is! Have P. J .Ochlan speak them out loud!
I like this book. Fukuyama is great on this topic. Listen to the interviews with him whenever you can, or buy the printed book. But I couldn't even finish this book. This narration style is probably the worst I've heard in an audiobook.
Great book destroyed by horrible reading
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Great way to put current events in perspective
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Very informative, surprisingly practical
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Most of us recognize democracy is at a crisis point. Some of us know that we've been at this kind of point previously.
Many of us are wondering what the blazes is going on.
This book made the situation quite clear to me, I highly recommend it.
Listen to understand our political environment now
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2020 necessary read
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Helpful understanding current political climate
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Narrated by a robot?
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vocal fry at the end of every sentence
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