1st Edition
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, in general, and specific social identities, in particular.
The volume contains eight original essays, plus a foreword written by Linda Martín Alcoff, that engage with issues pertaining to a broad range of identities, including class, sexuality, gender, race, ethnicity, and religious identity. This collection is an abrebocas, an entry way to theorizing about social identities in novel ways, and the essays collected here point to specific modes of understanding and experiencing social identities that have not been given their due or that offer new approaches to well-worn topics.
New Perspectives on the Ontology of Social Identities will appeal to scholars and advanced students across several philosophical disciplines, such as philosophy of race, feminist philosophy, social and political philosophy, phenomenology, epistemology, and social ontology. Scholars in disciplines like psychology, religious studies, and other social sciences will also find new approaches to questions of social identity relevant to understanding the complexity of the social world.
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 Đorđević
Biography
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.
“This book displays an impressive array of scholars who offer to the reader a wide-ranging overview as well as in-depth discussions of the ontology of various social identities, from a variety of different perspectives. This will become an important resource for philosophers, sociologists and other scholars working on social identities.”
Sergio A. Gallegos-Ordorica, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, USA
