Encountering ability : : on the relational nature of (human) performance / / by Scott DeShong.
"In 'Encountering Ability', Scott DeShong considers how ability and its correlative, disability, come into existence. Besides being articulated as physical, social, aesthetic, political, and specifically human, ability signifies and is signified such that signification itself is alway...
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| Superior document: | Value inquiry book series ; volume 294 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden : : Brill/Rodopi,, [2016] 2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Value inquiry book series ;
v. 294. Value inquiry book series. Philosophy, literature, and politics. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (229 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Metaphysics of ability: the nature of performance
- On the origin of (human) ability: language, possibility, and ethics
- The nightmare of health: approaching disability
- Dis/ability in black and white: the relationality of political ability
- Ability as response and irresponsibility: dialogue and struggle
- Denatured criticism: ethics, violence, improvisation between Levinas and Baraka
- Encountering Dis/ability in the work of Marguerite Duras.