![]() ![]() The characterization of disability in both academic philosophy and contemporary society views disability in terms of loss, tragedy, and misfortune. As an analytic philosopher, Barnes describes frustration at the explicitly normative and negative prevailing characterization of disability within her discipline. In The Minority Body, Barnes’s central question concerns the connection between disability (physical, she does not talk about intellectual or psychiatric disability) and well-being. Thus, the view from normal is never the view from nowhere. However, it can also be claimed that philosophy of disability is personal for everyone because non-disabled people are just as emotionally invested in being non-disabled. Philosopher Elizabeth Barnes begins her book with a personal and perhaps, defiant acknowledgement: “This book is personal…I’m disabled, and this book is about disability. ![]() ![]() And then it’s uniquely the minority voices which we single out as biased or lacking objectivity” (p. “It’s easy to confuse the view from normal with the view from nowhere. The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability. ![]()
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