The Politics of Recognition in the Age of Digital Spaces

Auteur

Benjamin JJ Carpenter is a Visiting Fellow in the School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK. His current research focuses on identity, spatiality, and internet communication technologies.

Texte du rabat

This book provides a philosophical analysis of the notion of selfhood that underlies identity politics. It offers a unique theory of the self that combines previous scholarly work on recognition and the phenomenology of space.

Contenu

Introduction: The Vampire's Masquerade 1. Pathology and Mediation 2. The Dialectical Self and Subject 3. Rejecting Recognition: Responding to Critiques of the Recognitive Tradition 4. The Structuring of Public Space 5. Online Discourses of the Self: The Spatiality of Social Media and the Framing of the Online Persona Conclusion: Against the Enclosure of Identity Post-script: Flight into the Virtual