Defending Identity

Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Government, Democracy
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Author: Natan Sharansky ISBN: 9781586486518
Publisher: PublicAffairs Publication: June 3, 2008
Imprint: PublicAffairs Language: English
Author: Natan Sharansky
ISBN: 9781586486518
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication: June 3, 2008
Imprint: PublicAffairs
Language: English

Who is better prepared to confront challenges and defend principles in a volatile modern world? Those with strong national, religious, ethnic, or tribal identities who accept democracy, or democrats who renounce identity as a kind of divisive prejudice? Natan Sharansky, building on his personal experience as a dissident, argues that valueless cosmopolitanism, even in democracies, is dangerous. Better to have hostile identities framed by democracy than democrats indifferent to identity.

In a vigorous insightful challenge to the left and right alike, Natan Sharansky, as he has proved repeatedly, is at the leading edge of the issues that frame our time.

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Who is better prepared to confront challenges and defend principles in a volatile modern world? Those with strong national, religious, ethnic, or tribal identities who accept democracy, or democrats who renounce identity as a kind of divisive prejudice? Natan Sharansky, building on his personal experience as a dissident, argues that valueless cosmopolitanism, even in democracies, is dangerous. Better to have hostile identities framed by democracy than democrats indifferent to identity.

In a vigorous insightful challenge to the left and right alike, Natan Sharansky, as he has proved repeatedly, is at the leading edge of the issues that frame our time.

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