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

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-32321-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 294, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Philosophy, Literature, and Politics

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Deshong, Scott

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Dekonstruktivismus, Strukturalismus, Poststrukturalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Signification of Ability

1. Metaphysics of Ability: The Nature of Performance

2. On the Origin of (Human) Ability: Language, Possibility, and Ethics

3. The Nightmare of Health: Approaching Disability

4. Dis/ability in Black and White: The Relationality of Political Ability

5. Ability as Response and Irresponsibility: Dialogue and Struggle

6. Denatured Criticism: Ethics, Violence, Improvisation between Levinas and Baraka

7. Encountering Dis/ability in the Work of Marguerite Duras

Notes

Works Cited

About the Author

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.