Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780472073733)

Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability is a distinctive contribution to growing discussions about how power operates within the academic field of philosophy. By combining the work of Michel Foucault, the insights of philosophy of disability and feminist philosophy, and data derived from empirical research, Shelley L. Tremain compellingly argues that the conception of disability that currently predominates in the discipline of philosophy, according to which disability is a natural disadvantage or personal misfortune, is inextricably intertwined with the underrepresentation of disabled philosophers in the profession of philosophy. Against the understanding of disability that prevails in subfields of philosophy such as bioethics, cognitive science, ethics, and political philosophy, Tremain elaborates a new conception of disability as a historically specific and culturally relative apparatus of power. Although the book zeros in on the demographics of and biases embedded in academic philosophy, it will be invaluable to everyone who is concerned about the social, economic, institutional, and political subordination of disabled people.

Author: Shelley Lynn Tremain
ISBN-10: 0472073737
ISBN-13: 9780472073733
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Language: English
Published: 11/22/2017
Pages: 258
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d