Beyond Personhood An Essay in Trans Philosophy

"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 Beyond Personhood broadly relevant to many disciplines and social movements."-Susan Stryker, Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University

"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. Beyond Personhood is destined to be a canonical text in trans philosophy."-Gayle Salamon, author of The Life and Death of Latisha King: A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia