The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity

摘要

In Why Nations, Yael Tamir—president of the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design in Israel, former member and minister in the Knesset, and adjunct professor at Oxford—directly addresses Lennon and Ono's challenge. She forcefully rejects this Utopian fantasy, arguing that a world without true nations would instead be dystopian. In The Lies That Bind, Kwame Anthony Appiah—professor of philosophy and law at New York University—is much more sympathetic to Lennon and Ono but ultimately concedes that the liberal state's "true anthem" is an earlier song by Lennon and Paul McCartney, "We Can Work It Out" (p. 103).