Defending Identity

Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy

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By Natan Sharansky

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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 times.
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Jun 3, 2008
Page Count
304 pages
Publisher
PublicAffairs
ISBN-13
9781586486518

Natan Sharansky

About the Author

Natan Sharansky lives in Jerusalem with Avital He has two daughters and six grandchildren. 
Gil Troy is a professor of history at McGill University in Montreal and has a residence in Jerusalem.

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