CSS Bookshops Buyer Protection Payments will be held in escrow until you confirm delivery. Disputes are reviewed by our team. How protection works →

Identity

Brains & Noble

View all books from Brains & Noble

Pricing

₦17,000.00 /

2 available

Minimum order qty 1

QTY

About this item

Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing. Item number: 8302

Last updated on Jun 13, 2026 05:11 PM

Item specifics

Category Brains & Noble

Condition new

SKU BN-48063

Item description from the seller

Increasingly, the demands of identity direct the world’s politics. Nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, gender: these categories have overtaken broader, inclusive ideas of who we are. We have built walls rather than bridges. The result: increasing in anti-immigrant sentiment, rioting on college campuses, and the return of open white supremacy to our politics.

In 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American and global institutions were in a state of decay, as the state was captured by powerful interest groups. Two years later, his predictions were borne out by the rise to power of a series of political outsiders whose economic nationalism and authoritarian tendencies threatens to destabilise the entire international order. These populist nationalists seek direct charismatic connection to ‘the people’, who are usually defined in narrow identity terms that offer an irresistible call to an in-group and exclude large parts of the population as a whole.

Identity is an urgent and necessary book: a sharp warning that unless we forge a universal understanding of human dignity, we will doom ourselves to continual conflict.