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- State University of New York Press
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- 2155-0905
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Abstract
Inheriting Identity and Practicing Transformation The Time of Feminist Politics Shannon Hoff A human life unfolds over time. No moment of it can be considered apart from the others, independently of the fact that the human being was and will be, and so no moment is sufficient on its own to tell us of the nature of that identity. Each moment is insufficient as an expression of who we are, as an answer to the question of what we want to be, or as a point at which a full account of our identity could be given. And we live each moment as if afflicted by a dual blindness with regard to the past and future that lend it significance; while exercising pervasive influence in the present, this past and future are relatively inaccessible to our reflective insight. We are always "growing up," so to speak, from out of a childhood that can never be the purely transparent object of reflection, to an adulthood or "accomplishment" of identity that is always in the mysterious future, unimaginable in the terms of the adolescence in which we find ourselves. My purpose here is to show how this issue resonates in
Journal
philoSOPHIA – State University of New York Press
Published: Feb 19, 2012