Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (Issues of Our Time)

“One of the few world intellectuals on whom we may rely to make sense out of our existential confusion.”―Nadine Gordimer

In this sweeping philosophical work, Amartya Sen proposes that the murderous violence that has riven our society is driven as much by confusion as by inescapable hatred. Challenging the reductionist division of people by race, religion, and class, Sen presents an inspiring vision of a world that can be made to move toward peace as firmly as it has spiraled in recent years toward brutality and war.

• Essential Readings in Comparative Politics (Fifth Edition)
• Essentials of Comparative Politics (Sixth Edition)
• Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time)
• New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era, Third Edition
• Arms and Influence: With a New Preface and Afterword (The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series)
• On Violence (Harvest Book)
• Development as Freedom
• Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race
• the idea of justice
• Identity Theory