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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Social Political Philosophy"”.
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Ethics and affects: A critique of social intelligibility with Adorno, Butler and Spivak
<p>In Ethics and affects: a critique of social intelligibility with Adorno, Butler and Spivak I offer a critical analysis that can help to disentangle the reliance of social legitimacy on social intelligibility. I maintain that legitimacy and intelligibility are woven into a kind of double-bind, …
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Making White Guilt Fitting
… that white guilt is at variance with the aims of social justice movements. Taking on Baldwin's perspective on whiteness as a subjective choice, I develop an Identity-Based Account of white guilt describing the emotion as tracking culpability for a pernicious form of self-identification. My central …
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Self Creation and Social Critique: Kierkegaard, Arendt, and Castoriadis on Thinking and Discourse
In this essay, I respond critically to two social phenomena: the unreflective repetition of values and the problem of a democracy in name only. After revealing the stakes of the project through an introduction to the three main thinkers and some central contemporary issues that are particularly …
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"Two-ness," Identity, and Agency in Du Bois's Souls
… W. E. B. Du Bois's most famous contribution to social thought and has generated a staggering amount of philosophical debate. However, in The Souls of Black Folk, Du Bois introduces not just double-consciousness but the distinct concept of "two-ness." And two-ness is philosophically interesting …