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    Holding and Letting Go: The Social Practice of Personal Identities by Hilde Lindemann
    Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 25 (3): 1-5. 2015.
    One of my favorite sentences in Hilde Lindemann’s lucid and remarkable book, Holding and Letting Go: The Social Practice of Personal Identities is this: “To have lived... as a person is to have taken my proper place in the social world that lets us make selves of each other”. With this phrase, as with the rest of her book, Lindemann manages to pull off that rarest of rare feats in academic philosophical writing: to say something that is at the same time philosophically insightful and universally…Read more