Vesga, Alejandro: Virulent Claims

_Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy_. forthcomingOur sense of self is distinctively social. It deeply matters to who we take ourselves to be that others recognize the claims we make on them and that we recognize the claims they make on us. Significant work on ideology and oppression characterizes how oppressive ideologies deny this kind of second-personal recognition. Yet, not enough attention has been given to the disturbing possibility that, even when successful, the personhood-constituti