Del 294 - Philosophy, Literature, and Politics

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

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-07-28
Mått155 x 235 x 11 mm
Vikt358 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePhilosophy, Literature, and Politics
Antal sidor218
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004323216

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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