scholarly journals This Is What a Historicist and Relativist Feminist Philosophy of Disability Looks Like

2015 ◽  
pp. 7-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelley Tremain
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Western Philosophy ◽  
Feminist Philosophy ◽  
Philosophical Work ◽  
Philosophy Of Disability

With this article, I advance a historicist and relativist feminist philosophy of disability. I argue that Foucault’s insights offer the most astute tools with which to engage in this intellectual enterprise. Genealogy, the technique of investigation that Friedrich Nietzsche famously introduced and that Foucault took up and adapted in his own work, demonstrates that Foucault’s historicist approach has greater explanatory power and transgressive potential for analyses of disability than his critics in disability studies have thus far recognized. I show how a feminist philosophy of disability that employs Foucault’s technique of genealogy avoids ahistorical, teleological, and transcultural assumptions that beleaguer much work in disability studies. The article also situates feminist philosophical work on disability squarely in age-old debates in (Eurocentric) Western philosophy about universalism vs. relativism, materialism vs. idealism, realism vs. nominalism, and freewill vs. determinism, as well as contributes to ongoing discussions in (Western) feminist philosophy and theory about (among other things) essentialism vs. constructivism, identity, race, sexuality, agency, and experience. 

scholarly journals On the Negative Possibility of Suffering: Adorno, Feminist Philosophy, and the Transfigured Crip To Come

2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Fritsch
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
The Body ◽  
Feminist Philosophy ◽  
Total Domination ◽  
Negative Dialectics ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
Negative Dialectic ◽  
Philosophy Of Disability ◽  
Critical Theorist ◽  
To Come

<p>Critical theorist Theodor Adorno is rarely considered as a philosopher of the body. The body which leaks, desires, rages, and lusts is seemingly disjointed from the dry and dense writings that often characterize Adorno's work. As bleak as this description of Adorno&rsquo;s writings may be, however, the body is both central to his critique of modernity and the site of hope and desire against the total domination and suffering that capitalism imposes. This paper highlights some of the ways in which feminist philosophy of disability and disability studies, more generally, would benefit by thinking in constellation with Adorno's negative dialectic to interrogate the ways in which meanings get made about bodies and, furthermore, use the margins of difference, in relation with others, to challenge what Adorno calls the "wrong state of things." I argue that the transfigured crip to come is central to this fight against the "wrong state of things."<strong></strong></p><p class="Body">Keywords: Adorno; negative dialectics; suffering; disability; crip</p>

scholarly journals Review of Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea J. Pitts
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Careful Examination ◽  
Feminist Philosophy ◽  
Philosophy Of Disability

Shelley L. Tremain’s Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability (2017) builds on the author’s over twenty years of professional labour and scholarly interventions within philosophy to provide a compelling and careful examination of a range of timely issues for researchers and students in disability studies.

GEORGE EGERTON'SKEYNOTES: NIETZSCHEAN FEMINISM ANDFIN-DE-SIÈCLEFETISHISM

2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Brown
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
First Principles ◽  
Good Life ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Western Philosophy ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Sexual Relations ◽  
Greek Thought ◽  
Radical Engagement

The title of George Egerton'sfirst collection of short stories,Keynotes(1893), announces a concern with the beginnings of sequences, the first principles from which larger patterns are orchestrated. The stories introduce premises from which new social and sexual relations may be engendered and individual existential choices made, a philosophical intent that harks back to the preoccupation in classical Greek thought with the nature of the Good Life and how to live it, which Friedrich Nietzsche renews for modern Western philosophy. Egerton's broad but nonetheless radical engagement with Nietzschean thought can be traced through the references she makes to the philosopher inKeynotes, which are widely credited with being the first in English literature. Indeed, such allusions are, as Iveta Jusová observes, “the most frequent literary reference[s] in Egerton's texts” (53). They were also recognised and mobilised against her by some of her earliest critics.

scholarly journals RŪPESTIS IR PILIETIŠKUMAS

Problemos ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. 15-27
Author(s):  
Renata Bikauskaitė
Keyword(s):  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Western Philosophy ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Feminist Philosophy ◽  
The Moment

Straipsnyje nagrinėjama šiuo metu feministiniuose ir nefeministiniuose diskursuose aktuali pilietiškumo problematika. Feministinė filosofija pateikia gausią Vakarų filosofijoje egzistuojančių pilietiškumo sampratų kritiką, tačiau ne tiek daug pozityvių alternatyvų. Šiame straipsnyje svarstomas bene originaliausiasir įdomiausias požiūris, kylantis iš rūpesčio etikos, kuri formuluoja savitą požiūrį į tai, kokios turėtų būti pilietės ir piliečiai šiuolaikiniame pasaulyje. Pateikiama rūpesčio etikos pilietiškumo sampratos, jos santykio su filosofiniame diskurse šiandien dominuojančiais pilietiškumo modeliais analizė. Į rūpesčio etikos formuluojamą pilietiškumo sampratą siūloma žvelgti kaip į šiuo metu besiformuojančią liberaliojo ir respublikoniškojo pilietiškumo modelių alternatyvą.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: pilietiškumas, rūpesčio etika, respublikonizmas, liberalizmas.Care and CitizenshipRenata Bikauskaitė SummaryThe article deals with the problems of citizenship which currently prevail in both feminist and non-feminist discourses. Even though the feminist philosophy produces plentiful critique of models of citizenship which dominate the Western philosophy at the moment it does not present many positive alternatives.This article analyses probably one from the most interesting and original conceptions of the kind of citizens does the modern world require. The article is focused on the examination of the conception of citizenship in the ethics of care and its relation to the models of citizenship which prevail in contemporary political and moral philosophy. It is suggested that the conception of citizenship inherent in the ethics of care is an emerging alternative to the liberal and republican models of citizenship.Keywords: citizenship, ethics of care, liberalism, republicanism.

Feminist Philosophy of Human Rights

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Tietjens Meyers
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Feminist Philosophy ◽  
Bodily Integrity ◽  
Philosophical Work ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Feminist Theories ◽  
Global North ◽  
The Right ◽  
Feminist Practice

This chapter offers an account of central issues and themes in feminist philosophical work on human rights, including examples of important contributions to this discussion, as well as current and future directions. Major feminist theories of the grounding of human rights are presented together with feminist critiques of human rights as a basis for feminist practice. Genocidal rape and the right to bodily integrity, the right to care and the care drain from the Global South to the Global North, and the feminization of poverty in the context of global justice are discussed in detail. Issues concerning women’s agency within diverse cultural contexts punctuate these discussions.

Feminism and Disability Theory

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Licia Carlson
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Feminist Philosophy ◽  
Philosophical Inquiry ◽  
Disability Theory ◽  
Philosophy Of Disability

This chapter maps out connections between feminist and disability theories to bring into relief the multiple ways that feminist philosophers are partaking in these conversations. It begins with a discussion of what is distinctive about feminist approaches to disability, while recognizing that there is not a single, univocal “feminist philosophy of disability.” It then turns to specific areas of philosophical inquiry in which feminist philosophers address disability, including ontological, epistemological, political, ethical, and bioethical considerations. The final section highlights a number of themes central to work in feminist philosophy and disability: embodiment, identity, intersectionality, and the generative and positive dimensions of disability. The chapter concludes by pointing to more recent directions in feminist philosophy of disability. These include disability aesthetics, explorations of disability in the context of technoscience and ecofeminism, and the problem of ableism in philosophy and the academy more broadly.

The Question of Ability

2015 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 227-240
Author(s):  
Joel Michael Reynolds ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Philosophy ◽  
Personal Power ◽  
Philosophical Inquiry ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
Distinct Area ◽  
Philosophy Of Disability

While Heidegger decried ethics as a distinct area of philosophical inquiry, a steady stream of secondary literature over the last three decades has mined his corpus for ethical insights. This literature tends to draw on his early or middle work and contrast his views with canonical normative theories. I bring Heidegger into conversation with philosophy of disability and feminist philosophy by focusing on the role of relationality and ability expectations. In section one, I provide a schematic of the dominant concept of ability in modernity: ability as personal power. Through the Bremen lectures, I then develop a Heideggerian concept of ability: ability as access. I conclude by discussing the stakes—ethical, philosophical, and political—of interpreting the question of the meaning of being as a question of ability as access to meaning.

Feminism, Friendship, and Philosophy

2002 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 63-82
Author(s):  
Diane Jeske
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Moral Theory ◽  
Feminist Philosophy ◽  
Feminist Ethics ◽  
Philosophical Work ◽  
Philosophical Ethics

In recent years, more and more philosophical work has come to be done under the rubric of ‘feminist philosophy.’ In particular, more and more work in philosophical ethics has come to be identified by both those who produce it and those who read it as within the domain of ‘feminist ethics.’ As a philosophical ethicist and a feminist, the question naturally arises as to whether I do feminist ethics. The question seems particularly natural in my case, because a great deal of my research has focussed on the nature of intimate relationships, the types of reasons to which such relationships give rise, and how moral theory ought to accommodate such relationships and their attendant reasons. Intimacy, after all, has been one of the areas to which feminist ethicists have paid a great deal of attention in their attempts to carve out a peculiarly’ feminist’ ethics, arguing that traditional or canonical theories need, at the very least, a great deal of revision if they are to respond appropriately to the ‘data’ acquired as the result of the inclusion and responsiveness to the experience of women.

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