La política de la identidad

In recent years a new conception of the world stresses coexistence in the public sphere. It is about identity politics. This trend, in which people, instead of wielding their status as equal citizens, proclaim their status as members of a group -be it gender, ethnicity or sexual orientation- to intervene in political life, is affecting all human affairs. The author, who has keenly observed the tensions of the present, traces the contradictions, dangers and virtues of identity, perhaps the most important issue of our time, in philosophical and political literature.