{"id":22267,"date":"2024-08-26T10:48:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T14:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=22267"},"modified":"2024-08-26T10:48:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T14:48:36","slug":"paul-katsafanas-2","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/profiles\/paul-katsafanas-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Katsafanas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><em><strong>Aggrieved Identities<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A rich literature in philosophy and psychology argues that people operate with identity-constituting narratives. These narratives enable us to make sense of our lives, experiences, and values. My project explores the way in which certain identity-constituting narratives generate aggrieved identities. An identity is aggrieved when it makes essential and continuing reference to grievances (real or imagined) perpetrated by some out-group, and defines the self in terms of opposition to this out-group. I explain how aggrieved identities emerge from an emotional state called ressentiment. I draw on philosophical and psychological work on narrative identity; philosophical work on resentment, ressentiment, and similar emotions; and sociological studies of individuals and groups that define themselves in terms of grievances. This work will culminate in a book, provisionally entitled Aggrieved Identities, which argues that aggrieved identities are among the chief sources of the social rifts and fractures that are endemic in our time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n","protected":false},"author":16661,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/22267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/22267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22269,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/22267\/revisions\/22269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}