Existential Philosophy and Disability

Perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-72775-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 374 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 765 g

Reihe: New Research in the History of Western Philosophy

This volume proposes a novel approach to engaging philosophically with disability studies. Taking as a starting point the fact that disability is an integral part of human existence, the chapters in this volume provide insight into situated, lived experiences of disability in articulation with prominent existential philosophers. Historical and theoretical perspectives bring the dominant models of understanding disability today (medical or biomedical and social) into dialogue with existential philosophical perspectives, and thematic contributions provide insight into specific disabled experiences which have historically been underrepresented in philosophy, including mental illness, addiction, severe cognitive/intellectual disability, ADHD, autism, and neurodivergent communication.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Fox-Muraton, Mélissa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

Introduction Mélissa Fox-Muraton

1 Towards an Existential Concept of (Dis)ability: A Critical Examination of Models of Disability Rita Vaicekauskaite and Jon Stewart

2 Heidegger and Garland-Thomson: Uncanniness, Misfitting, and Disability Mariah Partida

3 Nietzsche, Health, and the Social Construction of Disability: “A New Happiness” William A. B. Parkhurst

4 Solitude as a Survival Strategy. Cioran on Living with Melancholy Hanna Nasielska

5 Inability or Disability? An analysis of the Subject’s Inadequate Response in Cioran and Camus Maciej Kaluza and Hanna Nasielska

6 Individual Suffering: The Existential Dimension of Mental Illness René Rosfort

7 Becoming Yourself: Existential Authenticity and Mental Illness Alycia W. LaGuardia-LoBianco

8 Grenzsituationen and Spontaneous Remission in Addiction: A Case Study in Tweaking Phenomenology T. Virgil Murthy

9 The Cyborg Nature of Cognitive Disabilities: An Existential Analysis of Rationalist Frameworks Caroline Christoff

10 In the Margins of One’s Own Life: A New Theory of Masking ADHD Cal Nelson

11 Autistic (Un)Masking and the Challenges of “Authentic” Self-Disclosure Mélissa Fox-Muraton

12 Stumbling across Language-Games: A Wittgensteinian Perspective on Neurodivergent Communication Lisa Haase

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mélissa Fox-Muraton is Professor of Philosophy at Clermont School of Business and member of the Philosophies and Rationalities Research Laboratory at the University Clermont Auvergne (France), with a research focus in the fields of existential and moral philosophy.