Encountering Ability: On the Relational Nature of (Human) Performance

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

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 always in question. Thus the language of ability and the ability of language constitute discourse that undermines foundations, including any foundation for discourse or ability. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze’s theory of primary differentiation and Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophy of ethical relationality, Encountering Ability finds implications of music, theology, and cursing in the signification of ability, and also examines various literary texts, including works by Amiri Baraka and Marguerite Duras.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-07-28
Mått:155 x 235 x 11 mm
Vikt:358 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Philosophy, Literature, and Politics
Antal sidor:218
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004323216

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Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion
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Mer om författaren

Scott DeShong, Ph.D. (1994), University of Iowa, is Professor of English at Quinebaug Valley Community College. His previous publications address posthumanism, ability and disability, race, twentieth-century United States literature, and the work of Emmanuel Levinas.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Signification of Ability1. Metaphysics of Ability: The Nature of Performance2. On the Origin of (Human) Ability: Language, Possibility, and Ethics3. The Nightmare of Health: Approaching Disability4. Dis/ability in Black and White: The Relationality of Political Ability5. Ability as Response and Irresponsibility: Dialogue and Struggle6. Denatured Criticism: Ethics, Violence, Improvisation between Levinas and Baraka7. Encountering Dis/ability in the Work of Marguerite Duras NotesWorks CitedAbout the AuthorIndex