Existential Philosophy and Disability : Perspectives /
This volume proposes a novel approach to engaging philosophically with disability studies. Taking as a starting point the fact that disability is an integral part of human existence, the chapters in this volume provide insight into situated, lived experiences of disability in articulation with promi...
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Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2025.
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New Research in the History of Western Philosophy ;
9.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
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Call Number: PZ7.S588
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Mélissa Fox-Muraton
- 1 Towards an Existential Concept of (Dis)ability: A Critical Examination of Models of Disability
- Rita Vaičekauskaitė and Jon Stewart
- 2 Heidegger and Garland-Thomson: Uncanniness, Misfitting, and Disability
- Mariah Partida
- 3 Nietzsche, Health, and the Social Construction of Disability: "A New Happiness"
- William A. B. Parkhurst
- 4 Solitude as a Survival Strategy. Cioran on Living with Melancholy
- Hanna Nasielska
- 5 Inability or Disability? An analysis of the Subject's Inadequate Response in Cioran and Camus
- Maciej Kałuża and Hanna Nasielska
- 6 Individual Suffering: The Existential Dimension of Mental Illness
- René Rosfort
- 7 Becoming Yourself: Existential Authenticity and Mental Illness
- Alycia W. LaGuardia-LoBianco
- 8 Grenzsituationen and Spontaneous Remission in Addiction: A Case Study in Tweaking Phenomenology
- T. Virgil Murthy
- 9 The Cyborg Nature of Cognitive Disabilities: An Existential Analysis of Rationalist Frameworks
- Caroline Christoff
- 10 In the Margins of One's Own Life: A New Theory of Masking ADHD
- Cal Nelson
- 11 Autistic (Un)Masking and the Challenges of "Authentic" Self-Disclosure
- Mélissa Fox-Muraton
- 12 Stumbling across Language-Games: A Wittgensteinian Perspective on Neurodivergent Communication
- Lisa Haase
- Index.