![]() ![]() Analytic philosophers have, over the course of the twentieth century, practically copyrighted work in the historically big ideas of the discipline, such as metaphysics, epistemology, and ontology, but by so doing, these segments of the philosophical landscape have come to be dominated by the kind of abstract argumentation that has not been as welcoming of the subjectivities of the human condition. We should pause to note why The Minority Body is a groundbreaking interpolation in this central vein of the contemporary philosophical enterprise. ![]() ![]() But the one big difference is that her book is also an intervention directly into what may be considered the mainstream of the Anglo-American philosophical tradition, which is the arena of analytic philosophy. Elizabeth Barnes is one of these new feminist philosophers, and she is moving the discussion forward in many of these spheres. Not surprisingly, a number of feminist voices also have emerged, bringing with them reconsiderations of bioethics or new thinking in the ethics of care into the philosophy and disability nexus. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)Īlthough there have been a growing number of philosophical approaches to disability in the last two decades, especially in interdisciplinary areas like philosophy of law, education, and public policy, engagements with the more conventional areas of philosophy have by and large been limited to the domain of ethics. The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability. ![]()
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