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

Scott DeShong (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

230 Seiten

2016
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-32321-6 (ISBN)

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In Encountering Ability, Scott DeShong considers the philosophical and political implications of how ability and its correlative, disability, come into being in thought, culture, and literature, revealing how the discourse of ability unsettles the very foundations of discourse and ability.

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.

Scott DeShong, Ph.D. (1994), University of Iowa, is Professor of English at Quinebaug Valley Community College. His previous publications address posthumanism, ability and disability, race, twentieth-century United States literature, and the work of Emmanuel Levinas.

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Signification of Ability

1. Metaphysics of Ability: The Nature of Performance

2. On the Origin of (Human) Ability: Language, Possibility, and Ethics

3. The Nightmare of Health: Approaching Disability

4. Dis/ability in Black and White: The Relationality of Political Ability

5. Ability as Response and Irresponsibility: Dialogue and Struggle

6. Denatured Criticism: Ethics, Violence, Improvisation between Levinas and Baraka

7. Encountering Dis/ability in the Work of Marguerite Duras

Notes

Works Cited

About the Author

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.08.2016
Reihe/Serie	Philosophy, Literature, and Politics ; 294
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	358 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	90-04-32321-X / 900432321X
ISBN-13	978-90-04-32321-6 / 9789004323216
Zustand	Neuware