by Yascha Mounk · Penguin Press · tapa dura · ISBN 9780593493182
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«The Identity Trap» is Yascha Mounk's essay on identity and social justice in the US, published by Penguin Press in hardback (416 pages, in English).
The essay analyses how a set of ideas about identity and social justice, forged by postmodernism, postcolonialism and critical race theory, spread from universities to American businesses, media and government. Yascha Mounk argues that this «identity synthesis», despite its good intentions, hinders real equality and can turn the left into an unwitting ally of right-wing populism; against this, he proposes universal humanist values as an alternative path.
The subtitle of the work is «A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time». The original edition was published on 26 September 2023.
A title for readers of politics, sociology and current non-fiction, with an interest in the American debate on identity, social justice and populism.
