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A Hermeneutic Approach to Gender and Other Social Identities

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-58897-5

ISBN: 978-1-137-58896-8

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Jun 17, 2016

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Chapter 1Introduction

Barthold, Lauren Swayne

Pages: 1 –10

[The Introduction establishes the aim of the book as answering the question, what are social identities (with a particular emphasis on gender identity) for? It outlines how a hermeneutic approach will offer an answer that proves more advantageous than ones given by either identity neo-realists or...
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Chapter 2Horizons

Barthold, Lauren Swayne

Pages: 11 –42

[I expand upon and critically assess Linda Alcoff’s use of Gadamer’s hermeneutics to defend her theory of social identities. First, I address Alcoff’s use of Gadamer’s term, “horizons,” as a way of defending the social relevance of identities while critiquing essentialist accounts of identity....
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Chapter 3Coherence

Barthold, Lauren Swayne

Pages: 43 –65

[Georgia Warnke also draws explicitly on Gadamer’s hermeneutics and argues for an analogy between persons and texts: that is, identities of persons are like interpretations of texts. Just as Gadamer insists on the situated, purposeful, and partial nature of textual interpretation, so Warnke...
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Chapter 4Dialogue

Barthold, Lauren Swayne

Pages: 67 –93

[In spite of the strengths of Warnke’s identity pluralism, I argue that as it stands it does not adequately account for how we are to understand the integration and interaction among our legion identities. We need to conceive identity pluralism as entailing the productive integration of our...
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Chapter 5Application and Play

Barthold, Lauren Swayne

Pages: 95 –125

[Most thinkers tend to emphasize either the way in which a first-person perspective (i.e., consciousness, desire, authorship, or moral agency) or a third-person perspective (i.e., history, tradition, power, or society) defines one’s identities. A hermeneutic approach affirms the circular nature...
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Chapter 6Truth and Festival

Barthold, Lauren Swayne

Pages: 127 –154

[I argue for a further criterion beyond coherence, namely, the potential for an identity to contribute to community creation. I draw on Wendy Brown’s critique of subjectivism that privileges the “we” over the “I” but go on to argue (against Brown) that identities are legitimate in so far as they...

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