{"product_id":"beyond-personhood-an-essay-in-trans-philosophy-paperback-softback-9781517902575","title":"Beyond Personhood; An Essay in Trans Philosophy (Paperback \/ softback) 9781517902575","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBeyond Personhood\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAn Essay in Trans Philosophy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTalia Mae Bettcher (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781517902575\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 18 March 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e312 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.6 cm, 0.368 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"This profound and provocative work magisterially demonstrates the maturation of trans philosophy as a subfield, as well as the vitality of a trans approach to philosophy in general. How Talia Mae Bettcher’s novel theory of ‘interpersonal spatiality’ explodes traditional concepts of person, self, and subject to display their colonial and racialist roots makes \u003ci\u003eBeyond Personhood\u003c\/i\u003e broadly relevant to many disciplines and social movements.\"-Susan Stryker, Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Talia Mae Bettcher’s eagerly anticipated book offers an account of trans oppression and trans experience that is rigorous, radical, and entirely original. Dispensing with old orthodoxies, her ‘ground-bound philosophy’ enjoins us to undertake trans philosophy anew by ‘abandoning the notions of person, self, and subject’ that have constricted our thinking and our world. It is only through moving beyond ‘the catastrophe we call personhood,’ she argues, that we can understand the roots of trans oppression and the fullness of trans possibility. \u003ci\u003eBeyond Personhood\u003c\/i\u003e is destined to be a canonical text in trans philosophy.\"-Gayle Salamon, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Life and Death of Latisha King: A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bold intervention in the philosophical concepts of gender, sex, and self\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeyond Personhood\u003c\/i\u003e provides an entirely new philosophical approach to trans experience, trans oppression, gender dysphoria, and the relationship between gender and identity. Until now, trans experience has overwhelmingly been understood in terms of two reductive frameworks: trans people are either “trapped in the wrong body” or they are oppressed by the gender binary. Both accounts misgender large trans constituencies while distorting their experience, and neither can explain the presentation of trans people as make-believers and deceivers or the serious consequences thereof. In \u003ci\u003eBeyond Personhood, \u003c\/i\u003eTalia Mae Bettcher demonstrates how taking this phenomenon seriously affords a new perspective on trans oppression and trans dysphoria-one involving liminal states of “make-believe” that bear positive possibilities for self-recognition and resistance. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Undergirding this account is Bettcher’s groundbreaking theory of interpersonal spatiality-a theory of intimacy and distance that requires rejection of the philosophical concepts of person, self, and subject. She argues that only interpersonal spatiality theory can successfully explain trans oppression and gender dysphoria, thus creating new possibilities for thinking about connection and relatedness.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e An essential contribution to the burgeoning field of trans philosophy, \u003ci\u003eBeyond Personhood\u003c\/i\u003e offers an intersectional trans feminism that illuminates transphobic, sexist, heterosexist, and racist oppressions, situating trans oppression and resistance within a much larger decolonial struggle. By refusing to separate theory from its application, Bettcher shows how a philosophy of depth can emerge from the everyday experiences of trans people, pointing the way to a reinvigoration of philosophy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e Contents \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Preface and Acknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Introduction \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Part I. The Central Concepts: “Worlds” Apart \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 1. Getting “Real” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 2. On Intimacy and Distance \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 3. The Multiplicity of Meaning \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Part II. The Main Idea: Between Appearance and Reality \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 4. The Politics of Pretense \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 5. The Phenomenology of Illusion \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 6. The Operations of Theory \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Part III. The Buried Lede: The Liminalities among Us \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 7. The Coloniality of Intimacy \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 8. The Enslaving Self \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 9. Return of the Object \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Conclusion \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Glossary \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Notes \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52520747434264,"sku":"9781517902575","price":17.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/beyond-personhood-an-essay-in-trans-philosophy-paperback-softback-9781517902575","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}