Identity in Question

This collection provides a theoretical analysis of the issue of identity and the questions it raises about critical theory. Drawing from eminent theorists in various disciplines, The Identity in Question looks behind the familiar words of the discourse to rethink notions of universality and agency and the traditions of liberalism, nationalism and pluralism. The essays explore how the new critical theories and methods that have taken shape over the last twenty years, along with their conceptions of "otherness," "heterogeneity" and "subjectivity," figure in debates about identity. The book provides an invaluable tool for the many areas in which the question of identity continues to be raised.Contributors: Stanley Aronowitz, Etienne Balibar, Homi Bhabha, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, Andreas Huyssen, Fredric Jameson, Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe, John Rajchman, Jacques Ranciere, Joan W. Scott, Cornel West.Rajchman, John is the author of 'Identity in Question' with ISBN 9780415906173 and ISBN 0415906172.