Encountering Ability : On the Relational Nature of Human Performance.

Encountering Ability : On the Relational Nature of Human Performance.

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. Th...

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Language: English

Published: [S.l.] : Brill Rodopi, 2016.

Series: Value Inquiry Book Series 294.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2016, ISBN: 9789004303942.

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction: The Signification of Ability
  • 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
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • About the Author
  • Index.