The Faces of Intellectual Disability: Philosophical Reflections

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments · xi A Note on Terminology · xv Introduction: The Philosopher’s Nightmare · 1 Part One . The Institutional World of Intellectual Disability 1 Twin Brothers: The “Idiot” and the Institution · 21 2 Gendered Objects, Gendered Subjects · 53 3 Analytic Interlude · 85 Part Two . The Philosophical World of Intellectual Disability 4 The Face of Authority · 105 5 The Face of the Beast · 131 6 The Face of Suffering · 163 Conclusion: The Face of the Mirror · 189 Notes · 209 Selected Bibliography · 245 Index · 259 ...