Disability and Political Theory

Barbara Arneil, Nancy J. Hirschmann

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781316730973
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Political History & Theory
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Though disability scholarship has been robust in history, philosophy, English, and sociology for decades, political theory and political science more generally have been slow to catch up. This groundbreaking volume presents the first full-length book on political theory approaches to disability issues. Barbara Arneil and Nancy J. Hirschmann bring together some of the leading scholars in political theory to provide a historical analysis of disability through the works of canonical figures, ranging from Hobbes and Locke to Kant, Rawls and Arendt, as well as an analysis of disability in contemporary political theory, examining key concepts, such as freedom, power and justice. Disability and Political Theory introduces a new disciplinary framework to disability studies, and provides a comprehensive introduction to a new topic of political theory.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Dedication
• Table of contents
• List of contributors
• Foreword
• Disability and Political Theory
• 1 Disability in Political Theory versus International Practice
• 2 The Ableist Contract
• 3 Disavowals of Disability in Rawls’ Theory of Justice and his Critics
• 4 Disabling Barriers, Enabling Freedom
• 5 Wollstonecraft, Hobbes, and the Rationality of Women’s Anxiety
• 6 Dyslexia Manifesto
• 7 Rethinking Membership and Participation in an Inclusive Democracy
• 8 Hannah Arendt and Disability
• 9 Connecting the Disconnect
• 10 Disability and Violence
• 11 Rethinking “Cure” and “Accommodation”
• Bibliography
• Index