Pia Matthews

Other-person-ness and the Person with Profound Disabilities (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Many people think that profound disability presents us with a real problem, often because it seems difficult to connect with someone who does not seem to think or act like us. Positioning profound disability in this way immediately sets up a 'them' and 'us', where the person with profound disability becomes the problematic 'other'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000728804
• Artikelnr.: 65153675

Autorenporträt

Pia Matthews (PhD) is a senior lecturer at St Mary's, a faculty member of the Mater Ecclesiae College, and Director of Quality Assurance and Curriculum Development at Allen Hall Seminary Chelsea. She has a BA/MA in Law from Cambridge University, a BTh (Theology) from St John's Seminary Wonersh (Surrey University), and an MA in Bioethics from St Mary's. Her PhD doctorate explored the notion of the person in patristic theology and philosophy, applying insights from Trinitarian theology and Christology to contemporary issues concerning the person in bioethics.

Inhaltsangabe

1.Other-person-ness and the Person with Profound Disabilities. 2.Emmanuel
Mounier and the Turn to the Other in Philosophy. 3.Normalcy and the Social
Construct of Disability: Against the Other According to Jean Paul Sartre
and Simone de Beauvoir. 4.Disabled Others in Relationships: the Presence
and the Call of the Other Heard by Martin Buber and Emmanuel Levinas. 5.In
Vulnerability and Brokenness: Gabriel Marcel and Being Other. 6.Inclusion,
Belonging and Participation: God, Being and Other with Karol Wojty¿a.
7.Celebrating Other-person-ness of the Person with Profound Disability.