Książka Critical Theory and Disability Teodor Mladenov

Critical Theory and Disability

A Phenomenological Approach

Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Twarda
Dostępność: Dostępna u dostawcy
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Critical Theory and Disability explores social and ontological issues encountered by present-day dis...

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Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Twarda
Data wydania
2015
strony
232
EAN
9781628921991
ISBN
1628921994
Enbook ID
04841042
Waga
504
Wymiary
160 x 237 x 21

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Critical Theory and Disability explores social and ontological issues encountered by present-day disabled people, applying ideas from disability studies and phenomenology. It focuses on disabling contexts in order to highlight and criticize the ontological assumptions of contemporary society, particularly those related to the meaning of human being. In empirical terms, the book explores critically social practices that undermine disabled people's well being, drawing on cases from contemporary Bulgaria. It includes in-depth examination of key mechanisms such as disability assessment, personal assistance (direct payments) and disability-based discrimination. On this basis, wider sociological and ontological claims are made concerning the body, identity, otherness, and exclusion.

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