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In the heated debates over identity politics, few theorists have looked carefully at the conceptualizations of identity assumed by all sides. "Visible Identities" fills this gap. Drawing on both philosophical sources, as well as theories and empirical studies in the social sciences, Martin Alcoff makes a strong case that identities are not like special interests, nor are they d...
In the heated debates over identity politics, few theorists have looked carefully at the conceptualizations of identity assumed by all sides. "Visible Identities" fills this gap. Drawing on both philosophical sources, as well as theories and empirical studies in the social sciences, Martin Alcoff makes a strong case that identities are not like special interests, nor are they doomed to oppositional politics, nor do they inevitably lead to conformism, essentialism, or reductive approaches to judging others. Identities are historical formations and their political implications are open to interpretation. But identities such as race and gender also have a powerful visual and material aspect that eliminativists and social constructionists often underestimate. "Visible Identities" offers a careful analysis of the political and philosophical worries about identity and argues that these worries are neither supported by the empirical data nor grounded in realistic understandings of what identities are. Martin Alcoff develops a more realistic characterization of identity in general through combining phenomenological approaches to embodiment with hermeneutic concepts of the interpretive horizon. Besides addressing the general contours of social identity, Martin Alcoff develops an account of the material infrastructure of gendered identity, compares and contrasts gender identities with racialized ones, and explores the experiential aspects of racial subjectivity for both whites and non-whites. In several chapters she looks specifically at Latino identity as well, including its relationship to concepts of race, the specific forms of anti-Latino racism, and the politics of mestizo or hybrid identity.
丛书信息 · · · · · ·
Studies in Feminist Philosophy(共42册)， 这套丛书还有 《Burdened Virtues》《Beyond Speech》《Women and Citizenship》《Shifting Ground》《Autonomy Gender Politics》 等 。
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0 有用 kookyobject 2023-09-23 03:22:58 美国
以现象学的视角为identity正名。基于riceour等的诠释现象学的方法将identity作为一种进行自我叙事与建构的positive场域，因此identity的作用不再仅限于negation生成符号化的主体。同时也基于iris young等女性主义现象学路径的回到身体经验本身，再加上Latinx feminism经典的in-betweenness传统（alcoff的拿手好戏）。
0 有用 张信恒 2024-05-07 12:46:18 广东
有很多亮点，只不过我也有疑问“没有能指的所指”难道不早已是一种立场了吗，甚至是一种意识形态了，何必再去用racism、feminism、multiculturalism等等去证明有“知觉”（ponty)的“知识”（foucault)建构出来的社会现象是真正社会立场呢？