The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of DisabilityAuthor(s): Shelley Lynn Tremain, Shelley Lynn Tremain\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350268890, 978-1350268890\nSynopsis\nThe Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability is a revolutionary collection encompassing the most innovative and insurgent work in philosophy of disability. Edited and anthologized by disabled philosopher Shelley Lynn Tremain, this book challenges how disability has historically been represented and understood in philosophy: it critically undermines the detrimental assumptions that various subfields of philosophy produce; resists the institutionalized ableism of academia to which these assumptions contribute; and boldly articulates new anti-ableist, anti-sexist, anti-racist, queer, anti-capitalist, anti-carceral, and decolonial insights and perspectives that counter these assumptions.\n\nThis rebellious and groundbreaking books ch.