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The Meaning of Ability and Disability
- The Journal of Speculative Philosophy
- Penn State University Press
- Volume 33, Number 3, 2019
- pp. 434-447
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abstract:
I argue that the foundational question of continental philosophy of disability is the question of the meaning of ability. Engaging a range of canonical texts across the Western intellectual tradition, I explore three hermeneutic pathways toward this question, concluding with a discussion of its larger sociopolitical and philosophical stakes.