The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability

The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability is a revolutionary collection that challenges the historical representation and understanding of disability in philosophy, resisting ableism and institutionalized ableism in academia. It offers new anti-ableist, anti-sexist, anti-racist, queer, anti-capitalist, anti-carceral, and decolonial insights and perspectives, covering topics such as ableism and speciesism, disability, race, and algorithms, race, disability, and reproductive technologies, disability and music, disabled and trans identities and emotions, the apparatus of addiction, and disability, race, and risk. With cutting-edge analyses and engaging prose, the book will advance the emerging field of philosophy of disability and serve as an antidote to the historical exclusion of disabled philosophers from the discipline and profession of philosophy.

Format: Hardback
Length: 624 pages
Publication date: 14 December 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability is a groundbreaking collection that redefines the way we think about disability in philosophy. Edited and anthologized by disabled philosopher Shelley Lynn Tremain, this book challenges the traditional representation and understanding of disability in philosophy, exposing the harmful assumptions that various subfields of philosophy perpetuate. It also resists the institutionalized ableism of academia, which contributes to these assumptions, and boldly articulates new anti-ableist, anti-sexist, anti-racist, queer, anti-capitalist, anti-carceral, and decolonial insights and perspectives that counter these assumptions. The book's chapters, written by disabled philosophers, are wide-ranging in scope and invite a broad readership. They highlight the eugenic impetus at the heart of bioethics, challenge the whiteness of work on philosophy and disability, and elaborate phenomenological, poststructuralist, and materialist approaches to various phenomena. Topics addressed in the book include ableism and speciesism, disability, race, and algorithms, race, disability, and reproductive technologies, disability and music, disabled and trans identities and emotions, the apparatus of addiction, and disability, race, and risk. With cutting-edge analyses and engaging prose, the authors of this guide contest the assumptions of Western disability studies through the lens of African philosophy of disability and the developing framework of crip Filipino philosophy, articulate the political and conceptual limits of common constructions of inclusion and accessibility, and foreground the practical implications of these insights for disability studies and beyond.

Weight: 1098g
Dimension: 242 x 164 x 40 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350268890