The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability

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Philosophies of Disability seeks to explore disability not as a closed of field of study but as a set of experiences and ways of thinking that intersect with almost every aspect of how we live today. Disability is not separate from other processes of marginalisation and this book emphasises intersectional thinking that engages with disability and other urgent issues including race, gender, trans experience, animals and other beings, ageism, neurodiversity, immigration, prisons and fatness. Taking seriously the idea that disability is an issue of social justice, this book is a work of important political philosophy, one that provides a guide to those interested in learning more about how ableism, exclusion and normative values are damaging not only to individual lives but the whole social fabric, the lives of animals and the environment. A crucial guide to oppositional thinking from an international, intersectional and inclusive collection of writers, Philosophies of Disability asks us to affirm otherness and think anew about what philosophy might be.

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Shelley Lynn Tremain is a disabled feminist philosopher of disability. She is author of Foucault and the Feminist Philosophy of Disability (2017), editor of Foucault and the Government of Disability (2015) and runs the blog 'Biopolitical Philosophy' which publishes her groundbreaking Dialogues on Disability series.