Defending identity: its indispensable role in protecting democracy by Shcharansky, Anatoly., Weiss, Shira Wolosky Dermer, Ron. (9781586486518) | Browns Books
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Defending identity: its indispensable role in protecting democracy

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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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1586486519 / 9781586486518
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321.8
03/06/2008
English
259 pages
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