Main description:

Argues for a return to a positive view of the other via a personalist philosophy of being offered by Mounier, Marcel, and Wojtyla, and deepened by participation, belonging, and possibility of contributing to the good of all.

It will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, philosophy and anthropology.

Disability studies are often regarded as practical studies as opposed to the apparently inevitable theorizing of philosophy or theology. However, this book's methodology of explicitly linking disability studies with philosophy and theology demonstrates their complementarity.

Contents:

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 Wojtyla. 7.Celebrating Other-person-ness of the Person with Profound Disability.