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Martin Heidegger

Thomas Abrams

pp. 13-44

Abstract

Chapter 2 is the most theoretical of all the chapters, where I read Heidegger's existentialism as a way to discuss disability as a way of life. I begin discussing the concepts of care and the ontological difference in further detail than the past chapter. Then I move on to time and space, which are different in our everyday experience than as measured objects. Next, I outline Heidegger's opposition to Descartes' subjectivity, as knowing existence. I then discuss Heidegger on the body and modes of intersectional existence. I end the chapter with a threefold division of existence–coexistence–subjectivity, to combine his work with the sociology of disability. I end by discussing the themes of the next two chapters.

Publication details

Published in:

Abrams Thomas (2016) Heidegger and the politics of disablement. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 13-44

Full citation:

Abrams Thomas (2016) Martin Heidegger, In: Heidegger and the politics of disablement, Dordrecht, Springer, 13–44.