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A Hermeneutic Approach to Gender and Other Social IdentitiesCoherence

A Hermeneutic Approach to Gender and Other Social Identities: Coherence [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 insists the same is true for our identities. Warnke argues that there is never one single identity that is true for all times and for all places and therefore none of our identities ought to gain “imperial” status. What gives an identity legitimacy is its ability to cohere within a situation. Warnke’s identity pluralism provides a more efficacious approach to the critique of identity-based oppression than Alcoff’s identity realism. Nevertheless, I end the chapter noting three lacunae that remain in Warnke’s thought.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016. The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988Permission has been granted by Wiley to republish parts of “True Identities: From Performativity to Festival,” by Lauren Swayne Barthold, Hypatia vol. 29. No. 4, Fall 2014, copyright by Hypatia Inc.Permission has been granted by Cambridge Scholars Publishers to republish parts of “Warnke’s Text-Person Analogue: A Closer Look,” by Lauren Swayne Barthold, Review Journal of Political Philosophy 10, 2012, copyright by J. Jeremy Wisnewski and contributors.
ISBN
978-1-137-58896-8
Pages
43 –65
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-58897-5_3
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Abstract

[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 insists the same is true for our identities. Warnke argues that there is never one single identity that is true for all times and for all places and therefore none of our identities ought to gain “imperial” status. What gives an identity legitimacy is its ability to cohere within a situation. Warnke’s identity pluralism provides a more efficacious approach to the critique of identity-based oppression than Alcoff’s identity realism. Nevertheless, I end the chapter noting three lacunae that remain in Warnke’s thought.]

Published: Jun 17, 2016

Keywords: Social Identity; Gender Identity; Hermeneutic Circle; Visible Identity; Love Story

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