https://blog.georgefabish.com/tags/identity_politics/ Recent content in Identity_politics on George's Blog Hugo en-US Mon, 06 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.georgefabish.com/reviews/the-rise-and-triumph-of-the-modern-self-cultural-amnesia-expressive-individualism-and-the-road-to-sexual-revolution/ Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:33:40 -0500 https://blog.georgefabish.com/reviews/the-rise-and-triumph-of-the-modern-self-cultural-amnesia-expressive-individualism-and-the-road-to-sexual-revolution/ <p><strong>Premise</strong></p> <p>Modernity is obsessed with individual identity at the cost of destroying culture. The modern self has been reduced almost entirely into the sexual self. Carl Truman takes the reader on a scenic tour from Augustine to Marcuse tracing the way in which the modern conception of the self or &ldquo;psychological self&rdquo; has become increasingly disconnected from the physical self and its realities.</p> <p><strong>Good Parts</strong></p> <p>This book does a fair job of running through some of the intellectual heavy weights of the western cannon (think Rosseau, Kant, Marx, etc). The mainstream bits from these thinkers will be review for anyone familiar with philosophical history, but with some interesting threads being drawn out. Ironically, this book taught me some things about the LGBT community that I didn&rsquo;t know like the theoretical difference between &ldquo;gay&rdquo; and &ldquo;lesbian&rdquo;. One of the most interesting points to me was that some feminist refuse to accept man to woman trans people as being technically women because of the fact that they for the most part become patriarchal stereotypes of women. There is also the more common argument about certain biological realities lacking in a M2W trans experience.</p>