Amartya Sen's ideas and opinions in this book are eminently agreeable. However, this book comes across as either a hard-selling rebuttal to the nay-sayers to Sen's theories about identity, or repetitive professing to a reader who doesn't get it.
If I eat a peanut every time Sen criticizes Samuel Huntington and the Civilization theory, I will weigh a thousand pounds. With this book and the repeated attempts to nullify Civilization theory, Sen makes it much more important than it will or should be.
Amartya Sen continues to educate and continues to make smart and rational arguments that question conventional conservative wisdom. If this is your first Amartya Sen book, you will definitely get the party line in the signature format. However, if you are looking for more insights than what you have already received from the author, this book may not be the right one to spend time on.
