Leon Wieseltier
Against Identity

 



 As the literary editor of The New Republic, Leon Wieseltier plays an important role in framing intellectual discussions in America. This book grew out of an essay originally published in The New Republic in 1995, and is now presented as a collection of 74 aphorisms. It poses a series of questions, objections, and reflections on identity; a book that doesn't add up in praise of a life that doesn't add up; aphorisms that take issue with the greatest cliche of our day; a philosophical response to the obsession with identity that now characterizes American politics and American culture; an attempt to rehabilitate the idea of individualism against the cheap comforts of communitarianism.

Leon Wieseltier was born in Brooklyn in 1952. He was educated at Columbia, Oxford and Harvard. From 1979 to 1982, he was a member of the Society of Fellows at Harvard. He has been the Literary Editor of The New Republic since 1982.

This book was exhibited in the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Mixing Messages exhibition in 1996 surveying contemporary graphic design.

This edition is imaged on acid-free paper by Michael Josefowicz and Integrated Book Technologies. The text is set in Spectrum with typography by Jessica Helfand and William Drenttel. 158 pages, 7 x 4.5 inches. 1996.

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