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Holding and Letting Go The Social Practice of Personal Identities

Paperback • 2016 • English

Holding and Letting Go The Social Practice of Personal Identities

By Hilde Lindemann

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About the book

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 pers...Show more

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ISBN

9780190649609

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published year

2016

Language

English

Original title

Holding and Letting Go The Social Practice of Personal Identities

Format

Paperback

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