1st Edition
New Perspectives on the Ontology of Social Identities
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
