1 Maren Behrensen The State and the Self: Identity and Identities London and New York: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2017 (ISBN: 978-1-78348- 579-6) Reviewed by Pieranna Garavaso, 2020 Pieranna Garavaso is an Emeritus Professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Morris. Her research areas include the philosophy of mathematics, personal identity, and feminist epistemologies. She is the author of Filosofia della matematica: Numeri e strutture (Guerini, 1998); Filosofia delle donne (Laterza 2007, with Nicla Vassallo); and Frege on Thinking and its Epistemic Significance (Lexington Books, 2014, with Nicla Vassallo). She is the editor of: Arithmetic and Ontology: A Non-Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, by Philip Hugly and Charles Sayward (Rodopi, 2006); a monographic issue of Paradigmi devoted to Contemporary Perspectives on Frege (FrancoAngeli, 2013); and The Bloomsbury Companion to Analytic Feminism (Bloomsbury 2018). Quote: "The scholarship appealed to is broad-ranging, interdisciplinary, and inclusive of analytic, continental, and feminist philosophical traditions. Moreover, the author cites reports of real- life cases taken widely from media resources. This book demonstrates how philosophical analysis is relevant to significant real-life issues." *** This short yet wide-ranging book is a rewarding read; philosophers interested in current debates on the notions of personhood and personal identity and in the practical--that is, social, legal, and political--ramifications of these notions will find this book compelling and thought-provoking. The style is engaging and the abundance of real-life examples makes the discussion interesting; this is not to say that this book is devoid of theoretical grounding in the core texts of the debates on the above topics. Maren Behrensen clearly and effectively, although briefly, outlines major approaches to the definition of person and to the debate on the essential features of personal identity while defending "the recognition view," that is, a relational account of identity, one of whose necessary conditions is its construction within a social infrastructure. This review outlines the content of the chapters and concludes with a