The Guide to Philosophy of Disability

The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability is a revolutionary collection encompassing the most innovative and insurgent work in the 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.

This rebellious and groundbreaking book's chapters, most of which have been written by disabled philosophers, are wide-ranging in scope and invite a broad readership. The chapters underscore the eugenic impetus at the heart of bioethics, talk back to the whiteness of work on philosophy and disability with which the philosophy of disability is often conflated, and elaborate phenomenological, poststructuralist, and materialist approaches to a variety of phenomena. Topics addressed in the book include ableism and speciesism, disability, race, and algorithms, race, disability, and reproductive technologies, disability and music, disabled and trans identities and emotions, the apparatus of addiction, and disability, race, and risk. With cutting-edge analyses and engaging prose, the authors of this guide contest the assumptions of Western disability studies through the lens of African philosophy of disability and the developing framework of crip Filipino philosophy. They articulate the political and conceptual limits of common constructions of inclusion and accessibility and foreground the practices of epistemic injustice that neurominoritized people routinely confront in philosophy and society more broadly.

A crucial guide to oppositional thinking from an international, intersectional perspective.