Heidegger and the Politics of Disablement

This Book Presents The Early Existential Phenomenology Of Martin Heidegger As A Way To Reformulate Academic Disability Studies And Activist Disability Politics. It Redresses The Almost Categorical Neglect Of Human Difference In The Philosophy Of Heidegger. It Proceeds By Applying A Revised Version Of His Phenomenology To Social Policy Aimed To Get Disabled Persons To Work And To Methods In Rehabilitation Science Intended To Be More 'client Friendly'. Phenomenological Philosophy Is Extended To The Topic Of Disability, While, At The Same Time, Two Key Concerns Facing Disability Studies Are Addressed: The Roles Of Capitalism In Disablement, And Of Medical Practice In The Lives Of Disabled Persons. By Reframing Disability As A Lived Way Of Being In The World, Rather Than Bodily Malfunction, The Book Asks How We Might Rethink Medicine And Capitalism In Democratic Ways. It Aims To Transform Heidegger's Work In Light Of His Troubling Politics To Produce A Democratic Social Theory Of Human Difference.--back Cover. 1. Introduction -- Fundamental Ontology -- Reorganizing The Canon -- The Chapters To Come -- Works Cited -- 2. Martin Heidegger -- Care And The Ontological Difference -- Heidegger's Critique Of Substance Ontology -- Heidegger Contra Subjectivity -- Heidegger And The Body -- The Problem Of Intersectionality -- Fundamental Ontology And Disabled Phenomenology -- Heidegger's Politics And Disability Politics -- Works Cited -- 3. Medicalization -- Heidegger On Truth As Aletheia -- Three Readings Of Medicalization -- Rehabilitation Science -- Interrogating The Interview -- Works Cited -- 4. Capitalism -- Disability Studies Of Capitalism -- Framing/enframing -- The Economic Sociology Of Disability Supports In Ontario, Canada -- Returning To Disability Studies Of Capitalism -- Works Cited -- 5. Gathering Ability -- Disability, Gathered -- Four Objections And Four Replies -- The Road Ahead -- Works Cited. Thomas Abrams. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. This book presents the early existential phenomenology of Martin Heidegger as a way to reformulate academic disability studies and activist disability politics. It redresses the almost categorical neglect of human difference in the philosophy of Heidegger. It proceeds by applying a revised version of his phenomenology to social policy aimed to get disabled persons to work and to methods in rehabilitation science intended to be more ĺlclient friendlyĺl. Phenomenological philosophy is extended to the topic of disability, while, at the same time, two key concerns facing disability studies are addressed: the roles of capitalism in disablement, and of medical practice in the lives of disabled persons. By reframing disability as a lived way of being in the world, rather than bodily malfunction, the book asks how we might rethink medicine and capitalism in democratic ways. It aims to transform Heideggerĺls work in light of his troubling politics to produce a democratic social theory of human difference Acknowledgements 6 Contents 8 Chapter 1: Introduction 10 Fundamental Ontology 12 Reorganizing the Canon 14 The Chapters to Come 16 Works Cited 19 Chapter 2: Martin Heidegger 22 Care and the Ontological Difference 24 Heidegger’s Critique of Substance Ontology 26 Heidegger Contra Subjectivity 29 Heidegger and the Body 32 The Problem of Intersectionality 36 Fundamental Ontology and Disabled Phenomenology 41 Heidegger’s Politics and Disability Politics 46 Works Cited 51 Chapter 3: Medicalization 54 Heidegger on Truth as Aletheia 56 Three Readings of Medicalization 60 Rehabilitation Science 66 Interrogating the Interview 75 Works Cited 81 Chapter 4: Capitalism 84 Disability Studies of Capitalism 86 Framing/Enframing 91 The Economic Sociology of Disability Supports in Ontario, Canada 98 Returning to Disability Studies of Capitalism 104 Works Cited 106 Chapter 5: Gathering Ability 110 Disability, Gathered 111 Four Objections and Four Replies 114 The Road Ahead 119 Works Cited 121 Index 123 Front Matter....Pages i-viii Introduction....Pages 1-12 Martin Heidegger....Pages 13-44 Medicalization....Pages 45-74 Capitalism....Pages 75-100 Gathering Ability....Pages 101-113 Back Matter....Pages 115-119