Human Identity

"Romano's discussion of color adds an entirely new and exciting dimension to the examination in attempting to clarify our understanding of human nature. The heated debates in our attempts to bring fresh insight to bear here have been greatly enlarged and enriched by Romano's new departure. He casts new and potentially exciting light on these debates by his startling new approach: his originality consists in revealing what new approaches are opened if you start from our understanding of colour. This book will transform the debates about human identity by opening exciting and fruitful new possibilities." —Charles Taylor, McGill University

"After his history of selfhood in Être soi-même (2019), Claude Romano, one of the most productive hermeneuts of today, lays in this new book the groundwork for a conception of human identity that underlines its dialogical and social constitution. In the continuity of Heidegger, Ricoeur, and Taylor, it promotes an ethical view of ipseity that does not rest on the numerical permanence of the self, but on its responsibility, its strong commitments, and its truthfulness." —Jean Grondin, Université de Montréal

"Romano's discussion of color adds an entirely new and exciting dimension to the examination in attempting to clarify our understanding of human nature. The heated debates in our attempts to bring fresh insight to bear here have been greatly enlarged and enriched by Romano's new departure. He casts new and potentially exciting light on these debates by his startling new approach: his originality consists in revealing what new approaches are opened if you start from our understanding of colour. This book will transform the debates about human identity by opening exciting and fruitful new possibilities." —Charles Taylor, McGill University

"After his history of selfhood in Être soi-même (2019), Claude Romano, one of the most productive hermeneuts of today, lays in this new book the groundwork for a conception of human identity that underlines its dialogical and social constitution. In the continuity of Heidegger, Ricoeur, and Taylor, it promotes an ethical view of ipseity that does not rest on the numerical permanence of the self, but on its responsibility, its strong commitments, and its truthfulness." —Jean Grondin, Université de Montréal

Claude Romano is an associate professor at Sorbonne Université and a professorial fellow at the Australian Catholic University. His many books include At the Heart of Reason (Northwestern University Press).

Samuel R. Webb teaches in the Great Books program at St. John's College.