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Episode 209: Francis Fukuyama on Identity Politics (Part Two: Discussion)

Category: Religion & Spirituality
Duration: 01:26:15
Publish Date: 2019-02-18 17:40:29
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Continuing on Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment (2018).

Fukuyama recommends a "creedal national identity" as a solution for tribalism; does this work? Is this "demand for recognition" that he describes foundational for the act of making an ethical claim? For self-consciousness itself? How does ideology prejudice the sort of theorizing that Fukuyama engages in?

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