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Defending Identity|Natan Sharansky

Defending Identity : Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy

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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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  • ISBN: 9781586486518
  • Publisher: PublicAffairs
  • Imprint: PublicAffairs
  • Date: June 2008
  • Seller Statement: Sold by Hachette Book Group USA

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