In the Name of Identity

About “In the Name of Identity”

The notion of identity, whether personal, religious, ethnic, or national, has given rise to heated passions and crimes throughout human history, and what makes each individual unique has been a fundamental philosophical question from Socrates to Freud. In this series of reflections, the author, a Lebanese writer and commentator now living in France, considers how people define themselves and how identity is understood across the world's different cultures.