There’s an intriguing phenomenon in publishing you could call the One Great Idea book. Usually written by a leading senior scholar in an interdisciplinary field such as international relations, political philosophy, or comparative literature, the One Great Idea book displays a command of numerous languages and wide-ranging familiarity with classics in philosophy or religion. Its major aim is to reduce our understanding of complex realities by identifying one guiding thread that helps unravel the mystery with which it is concerned.IDENTITY: THE DEMAND FOR DIGNITY AND THE POLITICS OF RESENTMENT By Francis FukuyamaFarrar, Straus, and Giroux, 240 pp., $26.00 In the …read more
Source: The New Republic
