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The State and the Self: Identity and Identities

by Maren Behrensen

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm

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In this fascinating and timely book, Maren Behrensen facilitates a conversation between philosophy and the 'practitioners' of identity. What makes a person the same person over time? This question has been studied throughout the history of philosophy. Yet philosophers have never fully engaged with the 'practitioners' of identity, namely technology developers, lawyers, politicians, sociologists and applied ethicists. The book offers an answer to the metaphysical question of personal identity and tries to show how this question is of immediate relevance to the various practices of identity management - particularly in the fields of administration, counter-terrorism activities, and gender reassignment. Behrensen argues that identity documents and other markers of identity (such as biometric samples) are not merely representations of, but actually help constitute, personal identity. The metaphysical fact of personal identity lies in these supposedly 'external' features. The book goes on to focus on issues relating to 'trust' and 'security', terms central to the ethics of new technologies and in work on new identity management technologies.
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Sacred And The ProfaneThe State and the Self: Identity and Identities

  • Title

    The State and the Self: Identity and Identities

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

  • Published

    November 2017

  • Weight

    386g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9781783485796

  • ISBN-10

    1783485795

  • Eden Code

    4744612

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