Shiloh Whitney
Campus Westend, Raum IG 1.414
Anger gaslighting is behavior that tends to make someone doubt herself about her anger. In this paper, I analyze the case of anger gaslighting, using it as a paradigm case to argue that gaslighting can be an affective injustice (not only an epistemic one). Drawing on Marilyn Frye, I introduce the concept of “uptake” as a tool for identifying anger gaslighting behavior (persistent, pervasive uptake refusal for apt anger). But I also demonstrate the larger significance of uptake in the study of affective injustice: just as the concept of credibility names the uniquely epistemic cooperative behavior whereby we take someone seriously as an epistemic being, the concept of uptake names the uniquely affective cooperative behavior whereby we take someone seriously as an affective being. I answer Miranda Fricker’s epistemic notion of a prejudicial credibility economy with the affective notion of prejudicial uptake economies: uptake, like credibility, can be produced in a deficit for one social group relative to a surplus for another; and anger gaslighting behavior is unjust wherever it tends to (re)produce these prejudicial uptake economies. The concept of uptake economies allows me to locate the injustice of anger gaslighting at the structural scale of power relationships between social groups, in the tradition of Iris Marion Young. In this I deviate from parallels with Fricker that would locate the injustice of epistemic injustice in prejudice in the motives or character of individuals, as well as from accounts that ground it in inaptness or maldistribution of affective goods.
Shiloh Whitney ist Professorin für Philosophie an der Fordham University.
Der Vortrag findet in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Institut für Philosophie der TU Darmstadt statt.
