New Perspectives on the Ontology of Social Identities

This volume presents new research in social ontology by focusing on questions related to the characteristics, categories, and conceptual methodologies surrounding social identities. The essays engage with issues pertaining to a broad range of identities, including class, sexuality, gender, race, ethnicity, and religious identity.

Autorentext

Alejandro Arango is Lecturer of Philosophy at Gonzaga University, USA. His work has appeared in journals such as the Journal of Social Philosophy, The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Phenomenology and Mind, Adaptive Behavior, Teaching Philosophy, and Behavior Analysis in Practice.

Adam Burgos is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Bucknell University, USA. He is author of Political Philosophy and Political Action: Imperatives of Resistance (2017) and has published in Philosophy & Social Criticism, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, The Southern Journal of Philosophy, among others.

Inhalt

Foreword Linda Martín Alcoff Introduction: Identities Unfolding in the Social World Alejandro Arango and Adam Burgos Section 1: Experiences of Social Identities 1. Social Identities in the Modern Society of the Spectacle Casey Rentmeester 2. Exhaustion, Scars, and Inheritance: An Embodied Approach to Social Class Emerson Bodde 3. Vulnerability as a driver for social identities Fabio Macioce Section 2: Horizons of Social Identities 4. Everything I Could Have Been: Epistemic-Existential Injustice Saray Ayala-Lopez 5. Against Designations of Bravery: Towards a New Feminist Vocabulary Mridula Sharma 6. Becoming non-Jewish David Friedell Section 3: Some Frameworks of Social Identities 7. John Dewey's Pragmatist Social Ontology of Identity Johnathan Flowers 8. Social Identification as Representation, Construction, or Subjective Experience: Ontological Frictions in Psychology and Lessons from Social Ontology Ana or evic