Kenneth Hoover is Professor of Political Science at Western Washington University. His most recent book is Economics as Ideology: Keynes, Laski, Hayek and the Creation of Contemporary Politics Rowman and Littlefield, 2003.

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Future of Identity Chapter 3 Remembering Erik Chapter 4 Erik Erikson: The Biographer's Reflections on a Decade-Long Process Chapter 5 Why Erikson? Chapter 6 Identity in Formation Chapter 7 Identity and Choice Chapter 8 What Should Democracies Do about Identity? Chapter 9 Globalization, Identity, and the Search for Chosen Traumas Chapter 10 Religion and Identity: Deciphering the Construals of Islamic Fundamentailsm

Erik Erikson's lifetime of clinical and interdisciplinary work on human development centered on the formation and maintenance of identity among people of diverse backgrounds. In this volume key scholars of identity from various disciplines, some who knew and worked with Erikson, discuss and assess his legacy. Truly trans-disciplinary in scope Erikson and his scholarship begs to be revisited by psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and students of cultural studies.