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The Politics of Recognition in the Age of Digital Spaces: Appearing Together

The Politics of Recognition in the Age of Digital Spaces: Appearing Together

Carpenter, Benjamin Jj

Paperback

Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1032539038
ISBN13: 9781032539034
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 18 2024
Pages: 290
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This book provides a philosophical analysis of the notion of selfhood that underlies identity politics. It offers a unique theory of the self that combines previous scholarly work on recognition and the phenomenology of space.

The politics of identity occupy the centre of a contested terrain. Marginalised and oppressed peoples continue to seek the transformation of our shared social world and our political institutions required for their lives to be liveable. Public criticism and academic treatments of identity politics often take a disparaging view that treats it as subordinate to more general political questions about justice and the organisation of society and its institutions. This book argues that these polemics ignore the numerous ways in which all politics is concerned with matters of selfhood and identity. Through a rereading of Hegel's account of recognition as an ongoing and dynamic process that constitutes the self, it presents selves--and the categories of identity that qualify these selves--as fundamentally conditioned by the environments in which they appear before themselves and others. It also argues that we do the work of identity in public spaces--particularly digital spaces--and that these spaces shape what identities we can assume and what those identities mean. Contemporary social media technologies facilitate the production of particular forms of selfhood through the combined logics of the interface, the profile, and the post.

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