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The Affirmation of Blindness: a Nietzschean Critique of Interpretations of Suffering from Disability.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Affirmation of Blindness: a Nietzschean Critique of Interpretations of Suffering from Disability./
Author:	Berkemeier, Caleb Anthony.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
Description:	230 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-04A.
Subject:	Literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28765518
ISBN:	9798538147670

The Affirmation of Blindness: a Nietzschean Critique of Interpretations of Suffering from Disability.
Berkemeier, Caleb Anthony.

The Affirmation of Blindness: a Nietzschean Critique of Interpretations of Suffering from Disability. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 230 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-04, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Kent State University, 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

The field of Disability Studies (DS) generally avoids addressing the problem of suffering and disability due to the long history of harmful stereotyping of disability as being a bad state of existence. When suffering is addressed, it tends to be conceptualized and criticized as a consequence of social oppression; and, as such, the experience is devalued. Some DS theorists have attempted to analyze the problem of impairment-derived suffering, but they tend to narrowly focus on experiences of physical pain and avoid the negative psychological effects of lacking physical abilities. The problem of suffering and its value is a central concern for the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900). Many of his works explore the experience of suffering and the psychological need for suffering to have meaning in a world that no longer offers convincing metaphysical justifications for it. Nietzsche argues that suffering has value and is necessary for human flourishing; and, in opposition to philosophical pessimists like Arthur Schopenhauer, he asserts that suffering must be affirmed. This Nietzschean perspective on suffering has vital implications for conceptualizing and interpreting negative experiences involving disability in general, and blindness specifically. In Part 1, I describe several DS interpretations of suffering, and compare/contrast them with Nietzsche's interpretation. In Part 2, I use these interpretations to analyze experiences of blindness and suffering in memoirs and tragic literature. I ultimately argue that, if blind people are to flourish, we must adopt a Nietzschean interpretation of suffering. This interpretation requires us to affirm the value of suffering in blindness and to reject interpretations, such as social oppression, that devalue suffering.

ISBN: 9798538147670Subjects--Topical Terms:

537498
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