What Is Identity?

The concept of identity is at the core of so much culture and politics. But what does it even mean? What do identities have in common with anything? All involve labelling kinds of people, he says. The process of naming plays a role in their genesis. And then there's this sort of extra thought - that they've to be so central to our thinking about ethics and politics.

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