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Holding and Letting Go - The Social Practice of Personal Identities (Paperback)
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Holding and Letting Go - The Social Practice of Personal Identities (Paperback)
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The social practice of forming, shaping, expressing, contesting,
and maintaining personal identities makes human interaction, and
therefore society, possible. Our identities give us our sense of
how we are supposed to act and how we may or must treat others, so
how we hold each other in our identities is of crucial moral
importance. To hold someone in her identity is to treat her
according to the stories one uses to make sense of who she is. Done
well, holding allows individuals to flourish personally and in
their interactions with others; done poorly, it diminishes their
self-respect and restricts their participation in social life. If
the identity is to represent accurately the person who bears it,
the tissue of stories that constitute it must continue to change as
the person grows and changes. Here, good holding is a matter of
retaining the stories that still depict the person but letting go
of the ones that no longer do. The book begins with a puzzling
instance of personhood, where the work of holding someone in her
identity is tragically one-sided. It then traces this work of
holding and letting go over the human life span, paying special
attention to its implications for bioethics. A pregnant woman
starts to call her fetus into personhood. Children develop their
moral agency as they learn to hold themselves and others in their
identities. Ordinary adults hold and let go, sometimes well and
sometimes badly. People bearing damaged or liminal identities leave
others uncertain how to hold and what to let go. Identities are
called into question at the end of life, and persist after the
person has died. In all, the book offers a glimpse into a
fascinating moral terrain that is ripe for philosophical
exploration.
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