“Body and Identity” Named a Winner of the 7th Edition of the Expanded Reason Awards
The University of Notre Dame Press is thrilled to announce that Angela Franks’s Body and Identity: A History of the Empty Self was selected as a Winner of the Expanded Reason Awards, an initiative of the Francisco de Vitoria University (UFV) and supported by the Vatican Foundation Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI.
A comprehensive history of identity, Body and Identity brings the theological history of the self to the forefront in order to address the empty self and how identity is defined today. Angela Franks provides a sweeping intellectual history of identity, particularly in terms of how identity relates to the body, with an emphasis on the importance of Christianity to this understanding.
UFV is a Roman Catholic institution that has collaborated with the Ratzinger Institute to make tangible Pope Benedict XVI’s theory of open reasoning. The Expanded Reason Institute at UFV serves as a center that encourages the pursuit of truth through the integration of science with philosophy and theology. This mode of thought places reason at the service of faith, encouraging intellectual investigation of a highly interdisciplinary nature in order to “create a space for research and teaching that make a difference in the comprehensive understanding of humanity and the world,” says the rector of UFV, Daniel Sada.
The winners were chosen by a panel of experts who are globally acclaimed in their respective fields of science, education, philosophy, and theology. They will each be awarded a cash prize of 25,000 Euros. Angela Franks and her co-finalists will be officially recognized for their achievements in interdisciplinary research and teaching at the Vatican on September 30th, 2025.
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