重温同一性这一概念意味着拟写一部它的历史。自从这个术语被人们首次使用,特别是以其在本书中讨论到的独特的意义使用以来,已有二十多年。现在它的流行用法已变的多种多样,其盖涵的内容如此头绪纷乱,看来是到该较好地最后界定它究竟是什么和不是什么的时候了。“同一性”与“同一性危机”在日常的以及科学文章中的用法已变成不易琢磨的术语。它或者定义某种宽泛的,不言自明的,给任何定义看来都嫌窄的事物,或者指某种出于测量的目的而使意思缩窄到面目全非的 The concept of revisiting identity means writing a history of it. It has been more than twenty years since this term was first used by people, especially in its unique sense as discussed in this book. Now that its popular usage has changed a great deal, the content of its cover is so chaotic that it seems time to better define what it really is and what it is not. The use of “identity” and “identity crisis” in everyday and scientific articles has become a hard-to-interpret terminology. It either defines something broad, self-evident, something that seems to be too narrow to any definition, or something that narrows it to unrecognizable