Disability and Political Theory

A groundbreaking volume from leading scholars exploring disability studies using a political theory approach.

Barbara Arneil (Edited by), Nancy J. Hirschmann (Edited by)

9781107165694, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 22 December 2016

340 pages, 1 table
23.7 x 16 x 2.6 cm, 0.64 kg

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.

Foreword Deborah Stone
1. Disability and political theory: an introduction Barbara Arneil and Nancy J. Hirschmann
2. Disability in political theory versus international practice: redefining equality and freedom Barbara Arneil
3. The ableist contract: intellectual disability and the limits of justice in Kant's political thought Lucas Pinheiro
4. Disavowals of disability in Rawls's Theory of Justice and his critics Stacy Clifford Simplican
5. Disabling barriers, enabling freedom Nancy J. Hirschmann
6. Disability and violence: another call for democratic inclusion and pluralism Joan Tronto
7. Dyslexia manifesto Kathy E. Ferguson
8. Hannah Arendt and disability: natality and the right to inhabit the world Lorraine Krall McCrary
9. Connecting the disconnect: mental disorder and political disorder Theresa Lee
10. Wollstonecraft, Hobbes, and the rationality of women's anxiety Eileen Hunt Botting
11. Rethinking membership and participation in an inclusive democracy: cognitive disability, children, animals Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka
12. Rethinking 'cure' and 'accommodation' Nancy J. Hirschmann and Rogers M. Smith.

Subject Areas: Political ideologies [JPF], Political science & theory [JPA], Social groups [JFS], Disability: social aspects [JFFG], Social issues & processes [JFF]