Introducing the Journal of Philosophy of Disability

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 3-10
Author(s):  
Joel Michael Reynolds ◽  
Teresa Blankmeyer Burke ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Disability

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>

Disability in Practice

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Original Essays ◽  
Care Givers ◽  
Philosophy Of Disability ◽  
Excellent Work ◽  
Moral Attitudes

Disabilities pose special problems that fortunately have been recognized (to some extent) in our public policies. Public policy is important, as are the deliberative frameworks that we use to justify them, and the original essays in the second and third sections of this volume have significant implications for public policy and offer new proposals for justifying frameworks. Underlying public policies and their assessment, however, are the attitudes, good and bad, that we bring to them, and our attitudes as well deeply affect our interpersonal relationships. Although some excellent work in philosophy of disability has been done in this area of attitudes and relationships, more discussion is needed. The essays here, especially in the first section, reveal how complex and problematic our attitudes towards persons with disabilities are when we are in relationships with them as care-givers, friends, family members, or briefly encountered strangers. Our attitudes towards ourselves as persons with (or without) disabilities are implicated in these discussions as well. Among the highlights of this volume are its focus on moral attitudes and relationships involving disabilities and its contributors’ recognition of the multi-faceted nature of disability problems. The importance of respect for persons as a necessary complement to beneficence is an underlying theme, and a deeper understanding of respect is made possible by considering its implications for relationships with disabled people. Awareness of human vulnerabilities also makes clear the need for modifying traditional deliberative frameworks for assessing policies, and several essays make constructive proposals for the changes that are needed.

A Textual Deconstruction of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

2008 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-92
Author(s):  
Susan Gately ◽  
Christy Hammer ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Philosophy Of Disability ◽  
Radical Freedom ◽  
K 12 ◽  
General Society

The extremely well-known holiday television special Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer is deconstructed to expose an underlying philosophical paradigm towards people, especially children, with disabilities that is mechanistic and utilitarian. This paradigm includes a static and over-determined view of any disability a person may have, and can be erroneously supported by a philosophy of “radical freedom.” Examples of this philosophy of disability as applied to the K-12 realm of special education are also provided, showing how the lessons learned from the children’s movie are mirrored in the static conceptualization of the notion of disability in the general society and educational system.

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.

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