Other-Person-Ness and the Person With Profound Disabilities

Many people think that profound disability presents us with a real problem, often because it seems difficult to connect with someone who does not seem to think or act like us. Positioning profound disability in this way immediately sets up a 'them' and 'us', where the person with profound disability becomes the problematic 'other'.

List of contents

1.Other-person-ness and the Person with Profound Disabilities. 2.Emmanuel Mounier and the Turn to the Other in Philosophy. 3.Normalcy and the Social Construct of Disability: Against the Other According to Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. 4.Disabled Others in Relationships: the Presence and the Call of the Other Heard by Martin Buber and Emmanuel Levinas. 5.In Vulnerability and Brokenness: Gabriel Marcel and Being Other. 6.Inclusion, Belonging and Participation: God, Being and Other with Karol Wojtyła. 7.Celebrating Other-person-ness of the Person with Profound Disability.

About the author

Pia Matthews (PhD) is a senior lecturer at St Mary’s, a faculty member of the Mater Ecclesiae College, and Director of Quality Assurance and Curriculum Development at Allen Hall Seminary Chelsea. She has a BA/MA in Law from Cambridge University, a BTh (Theology) from St John’s Seminary Wonersh (Surrey University), and an MA in Bioethics from St Mary’s. Her PhD doctorate explored the notion of the person in patristic theology and philosophy, applying insights from Trinitarian theology and Christology to contemporary issues concerning the person in bioethics.

Summary

Many people think that profound disability presents us with a real problem, often because it seems difficult to connect with someone who does not seem to think or act like us. Positioning profound disability in this way immediately sets up a ‘them’ and ‘us’, where the person with profound disability becomes the problematic ‘other’.

Product details

• Authors: Pia Matthews, Matthews Pia
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9781032255453
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3225545-3
• No. of pages: 182
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities, RELIGION / Theology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, Personal & public health, Ethics & moral philosophy, Bioethics, Ethics and moral philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Religious ethics, Disability: social aspects, Bio-ethics, Personal and public health / health education, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -