Identity: A Very Short Introduction

牛津通識系列：身份

基本信息

Author：Florian Coulmas

Format：Paperback | 168 pages

Dimensions：115 x 176 x 10mm | 132g

Publication date：28 Feb 2019

Publisher：Oxford University Press Inc

Language: English

ISBN10：0198828543

ISBN13：9780198828549

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書籍簡介

身份已經成為當今使用最廣泛的術語之一，出現在許多不同的語境中。任何事物都有自己的身份，而身份危機幾乎同樣無處不在。然而，“身份”是非常多樣化的，在不同的人和不同的科學學科中有不同的含義。對許多人來説，這個詞的意義似乎是不言而喻的，因為它的各種用法都有共同的特點，所以這個詞的使用往往沒有一個確切的定義，它到底是什麼意思。這就引出了一個核心問題:身份到底是什麼?

在這個非常簡短的介紹中，柯爾瑪斯對身份概念的許多方面進行了調查，並討論了它在哲學、社會學、心理學以及政治和法律等領域的意義和不同意義。庫爾馬斯追溯了我們對身份認同的關注，追溯到它在歐洲思想史、個人主義和劃定邊界的強烈需求，他確定了用來劃分個人和集體身份的最重要特徵，並論證了為什麼它們被認為是重要的。最後，他回顧了歷史上文學處理身份問題的多種方式。

Identity has become one of the most widely used terms today, appearing in many different contexts. Anything and everything has an identity, and identity crises have become almost equally pervasive. Yet "identity" is extremely versatile, meaning different things to different people and in different scientific disciplines. To many its meaning seems self-evident, since its various uses share common features, so often the term is used without a definition of what, exactly, is meant by it. This provokes the core question: What exactly is identity? 

In this Very Short Introduction Florian Coulmas provides a survey of the many faces of the concept of identity, and discusses its significance and varied meanings in the fields of philosophy, sociology, and psychology, as well as politics and law. Tracing our concern with identity to its deep roots in Europe's intellectual history, individualism, and the felt need to draw borderlines, Coulmas identifies the most important features used to mark off individual and collective identities, and demonstrates why they are deemed important. He concludes with a glimpse at the many ways in which literature has engaged with problems of identity throughout history.

作者簡介

弗洛裏安·庫爾馬斯是杜伊斯堡-埃森大學東亞研究所的日本社會和社會語言學教授。在此之前，他曾在喬治敦大學、日本語言與語言學國立研究所和日本中央大學擔任研究和教學職務。他出版了大量書籍，包括《多元語言導論》(牛津大學出版社，2017年)和《寫作與社會:導論》(劍橋大學出版社，2013年)。在過去的30年裏，他擔任《國際語言社會學雜誌》的副主編，在此期間，他觀察到身份這一概念在一般和學術出版物中的使用穩步增長。

Florian Coulmas is Professor of Japanese Society and Sociolinguistics at the IN-EAST Institute of East Asian Studies at Duisburg-Essen University. Prior to this, he has held research and teaching positions at Georgetown University, the National Institute of Japanese Language and Linguistics, and Chuo University. He has published numerous books, including An Introduction to Multilingualism (OUP, 2017) and Writing and Society: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2013). For the past three decades he has served as Associate Editor of the International Journal of the Sociology of Languages, during which time he has observed the steadily increasing use of the concept of identity in both general and scholarly publications.

目錄

Introduction: an identity wave

1. "Who am I?" Identity in philosophy

2. Identity in logic and the classical law of thought

3. Given or constructed? Identity in cultural anthropology

4. Adam and Eve, Hijra, LGBTQs and the shake-up of gender identities

5. Identity politics: promises and dangers

6. "Your station in life." Social identities in our time

7. Citizenship, legal status, and proof of identity—identity as a legal concept

8. Selfhood, character, and personality—the psychology of identity

9. "They don't speak our language." Identity in linguistics

10. Who is behind the mask? Identity in literature and literary criticism

Conclusions

Further reading

Index

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