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Today people's cultural identities are increasingly invoked in support of political claims, and these .

Today people's cultural identities are increasingly invoked in support of political claims, and these claims commonly lead to acrimony and violence. But what is 'cultural identity', and what is its political significance? This book offers a provocatively sceptical answer to these questions. Nor is it any uniform phenomenon

Today people's cultural identities are increasingly invoked in support of political claims, and these claims commonly lead to acrimony and violence

Today people's cultural identities are increasingly invoked in support of political claims, and these claims commonly lead to acrimony and violence. But what is 'cultural identity', and what is its political significance? Excerpt. These days, people who reach for revolvers – or heavier weaponry – frequently justify their violent actions by using that word themselves with anything but distaste.

But what is 'cultural identity', and what is its political significance? This book offers a provocatively sceptical answer to. .Paul Gilbert is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hull.

But what is 'cultural identity', and what is its political significance? This book offers a provocatively sceptical answer to these questions. His previous books include The World, the Flesh and the Subject (with Kathleen Lennon, 2005), New Terror, New Wars (2003), Peoples, Cultures and Nations in Political Philosophy (2000), The Philosophy of Nationalism (1998), Terrorism, Security and Nationality (1994), and Human Relationships (1991).

Paul Gilbert is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hull

The arguments it makes are strong and relevant to an increasingly globalised and multicultural world; policy makers should take good stock of this book.

Today, people's cultural identities are increasingly invoked in support of political claims, and these .

Today, people's cultural identities are increasingly invoked in support of political claims, and these claims commonly lead to acrimony and violence. Nor is it any uniform phenomenon

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A pragmatist ethics seems to be hinted at but Gilbert’s final stance on cultural identity and political ethics remains entirely unclear.

Cultural Identity and Political Ethics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. A pragmatist ethics seems to be hinted at but Gilbert’s final stance on cultural identity and political ethics remains entirely unclear. This is perhaps the largest and most significant flaw in the work as a whole. Cultural Identity and Political Ethics is written simply but not without elegance, and it is modest in its aims and honest in its intentions.

Identities as political and contextual. Paul Gilbert‟s book Cultural Identity and Political Ethics represents one of the recent relevant challenges to the politics of identity, or politics based on cul-tural claims. Contrary to ambitions of supporters of identity or cultural poli-tics to show metaphysical depth in cultures or identities as the ground for strong political requirements, Gilbert sees in cultures mainly a political di-mension. Why do culturalists and identitists insist so much on metaphysical depth?

8 The Ethics of Identity.

Published by: Edinburgh University Press. Book Description: Today people's cultural identities are increasingly invoked in support of political claims, and these claims commonly lead to acrimony and violence. 8 The Ethics of Identity. Apologists for a politics of identity often speak in terms of the value of cultural identity.