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Encountering Ability: On the Relational Nature of (Human) Performance
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Product Details
Author:
Scott DeShong
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
218
Publisher:
Brill (July 28, 2016)
Imprint:
Brill
Language:
English
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13:
9789004323216
ISBN-10:
900432321X
Weight:
12oz
Dimensions:
6.1" x 9.25" x 0.43"
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TWO RIVERS
List Price:
$90.00
Country of Origin:
Netherlands
Series:
Philosophy, Literature, and Politics
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Pub Discount:
35
Overview
In Encountering Ability, Scott DeShong considers how ability and its correlative, disability, come into existence. Besides being articulated as physical, social, aesthetic, political, and specifically human, ability signifies and is signified such that signification itself is always in question. Thus the language of ability and the ability of language constitute discourse that undermines foundations, including any foundation for discourse or ability. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze’s theory of primary differentiation and Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophy of ethical relationality, Encountering Ability finds implications of music, theology, and cursing in the signification of ability, and also examines various literary texts, including works by Amiri Baraka and Marguerite Duras.
