Heidegger and the Politics of Disablement
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&nb
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Thomas Abrams
Heidegger and the Politics of Disablement
Thomas Abrams
Heidegger and the Politics of Disablement
Thomas Abrams University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada
ISBN 978-1-137-52855-1 ISBN 978-1-137-52856-8 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-52856-8
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This book would not have been possible without the support of a great many friends, family, colleagues, and loved ones, too numerous to list here. Special thanks to Tanya Titchkosky, Rod Michalko, and Barbara Gibson for their help and support during my time at the University of Toronto. Most importantly, none of this would have been possible without the love and dedication of my partner, Baalqis Hassan. To all of you, thank you. I am in your debt.
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Introduction Fundamental Ontology Reorganizing the Canon The Chapters to Come Works Cited
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Martin Heidegger Care and the Ontological Difference Heidegger’s Critique of Substance Ontology Heidegger Contra Subjectivity Heidegger and the Body The Problem of Intersectionality Fundamental Ontology and Disabled Phenomenology Heidegger’s Politics and Disability Politics Works Cited
13 15 17 20 23 27 32 37 42
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Medicalization Heidegger on Truth as Aletheia Three Readings of Medicalization Rehabilitation Science Interrogating the Interview Works Cited
45 47 51 57 66 72
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Capitalism Disability Studies of Capitalism Framing/Enframing The Economic Sociology of Disability Supports in Ontario, Canada Returning to Disability Studies o
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