Heidegger and the Politics of Disablement

Informationen zum Autor Thomas Abrams is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Social Justice Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada. His research interests include Heidegger, Social Theory, Phenomenology, Embodiment, Economic Sociology and Critical Rehabilitation. Klappentext This book presents the early existential phenomenology of Martin Heidegger as a way to reformulate academic disability studies and activist disability politics. It redresses the almost categorical neglect of human difference in the philosophy of Heidegger. It proceeds by applying a revised version of his phenomenology to social policy aimed to get disabled persons to work and to methods in rehabilitation science intended to be more ‘client friendly’. Phenomenological philosophy is extended to the topic of disability, while, at the same time, two key concerns facing disability studies are addressed: the roles of capitalism in disablement, and of medical practice in the lives of disabled persons.  By reframing disability as a lived way of being in the world, rather than bodily malfunction, the book asks how we might rethink medicine and capitalism in democratic ways. It aims to transform Heidegger’s work in light of his troubling politics to produce a democratic social theory of human difference. Zusammenfassung This book presents the early existential phenomenology of Martin Heidegger as a way to reformulate academic disability studies and activist disability politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Martin Heidegger.- Chapter 3. Medicalization.- Chapter 4. Capitalism.- Chapter 5. Gathering Ability.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Abrams
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2015
• EAN: 9781137528551
• ISBN: 978-1-137-52855-1
• No. of pages: 127
• Series: Palgrave Pivot; Philosophie & Politique / Philosophy & Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Pädagogik, Medizinsoziologie, C, Pädagogik: Theorie und Philosophie, Sociology of Education, Education, Sociology, Phenomenology, Social Theory, Phänomenologie und Existenzphilosophie, Social Sciences, Philosophy and theory of education, Educational Philosophy, Education—Philosophy, Educational sociology, Social sciences—Philosophy, Sociology of the Body, Social medicine, Medical Sociology, Phenomenology and Existentialism