Identity, Interest and Action

A Cultural Explanation of Sweden's Intervention in the Thirty Years War

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This book offers an original combination of cultural and narrative theory with an empirical study of identity and political action. It is at once a powerful critique of rational choice theories of action and a solution to the historiographical puzzle of why Sweden went to war in 1630. Erik Ringmar argues that people act not only for reasons of interest, but also for reasons of identity, and that the latter are, in fact, more fundamental. Deploying his alternative, non-rational theory of action in his account of the Swedish intervention in the Thirty Years War, he shows it to have been an attempt on behalf of the Swedish leaders to gain recognition for themselves and their country. Further to this, he demonstrates the importance of questions of identity to the study of war and of narrative theories of action to the social sciences in general.

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"Erik Ringmar has done a neat job of comparing rational-choice models of decision making with cultural ones in Identity, Interest and Action...this is a powerful little study, smoothly written and tightly argued that sheds light on many different areas of sociology." James M. Jasper, Contemporary Sociology

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Published: 2nd December 1996

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Acknowledgements
Introduction: the deaths of Michel Leiris

Unities and identities: Leiris and surrealism
Recasting the self: from surrealism to ethnography
Autobiographical frameworks: from ethnography to L'Age d'homme
Positional play: La RFgle du jeu
Secreting the self: Journal 1922-1989
The Quest for Presence in La RFgle du jeu
Excess of joy: the beginnings of presence in '... Reusement!'
Organs of learning: sensing presence in Biffures
The act of union: being-in-the-world in La RFgle du jeu
Thanatography: non-being as the limit of autobiography
Conclusion: locating Leiris
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
Introduction: the beginning of the story
A Narrative Theory of Action
Historical and scientific explanations
The modern orthodoxy
A narrative theory of action
Why Did Sweden Go to War in 1630?
Historical and cultural preliminaries
Fighting for a national interest
Fighting for a national identity
Conclusion: the end of the story?
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Identity, Interest and Action

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