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Self Definition - A Philosophical Inquiry from the Global South and Global North (Hardcover)
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Self Definition - A Philosophical Inquiry from the Global South and Global North (Hardcover)
Series: Philosophy of Race
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Self Definition argues that sex, gender, and race are constructions
by the ineffable self as it seeks to define its possibilities free
of domination. The self’s embodiments are themselves performances
of self definition. Teodros Kiros supports his argument by a
careful reading of the literature from both the Global South and
Global North that spans figures, works, and eras from antiquity to
our late modern present. These readings demonstrate that race,
gender, and sex are performed in the Global South radically
differently from in the Global North. These three notions as
markers of identity are fluid, open, and expansive, and Kiros
brilliantly shows this through inquiry into thought rooted in
Egypt, Ethiopia, India, and China. By the time that the Global
North forges possibilities of the self in the modern period, race,
gender, and sex become fixed. Biology and anatomy become understood
as destinies, and the possibilities of the self are deeply
constrained. This book approaches case studies of key figures and
movements chronologically and thematically, and in doing so Kiros
highlights the tensions between the openness of the Global South
and the rigidity of the Global North through which human
possibilities as exercises of self-definition become clear under
conditions of freedom. Our views of self definition will forever be
transformed after reading this important text.
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