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dc.contributor.supervisorMcCance, Dawne (Religion)en_US
dc.contributor.authorCove, Katelyn
dc.date.accessioned2011-09-21T14:33:54Z
dc.date.available2011-09-21T14:33:54Z
dc.date.issued2011-09-21
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/4934
dc.description.abstractIn my thesis I engage selected texts of Jacques Derrida, David Wills, and Jean-Luc Nancy in order to draw on specific motifs that are relevant for a thinking of sight and blindness. The motifs on which I elaborate are immediacy, prosthesis, and extension respectively. In consecutive chapters, based on close readings of these selected texts and the development of these motifs in them, my study elaborates on the relevance of the work of these three thinkers for a thinking of sight and blindness that does not conform to the hierarchical dualisms of Western metaphysics. Following this, I engage three texts by selected theorists from the large and growing field of disability studies—Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Lennard Davis, David T. Mitchell, and Susan L. Snyder—in order to make the case that disability studies has not yet challenged its own metaphysical assumptions.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subjectcritical theoryen_US
dc.subjectblindnessen_US
dc.subjectdisabilityen_US
dc.subjectbodyen_US
dc.titleRe-embodying “sight”: representations of blindness in critical theory and disability studiesen_US
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
dc.typemaster thesisen_US
dc.degree.disciplineReligionen_US
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeAlexandrin, Elizabeth (Religion) Warne, Vanessa (English, Film, and Theatre)en_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts (M.A.)en_US
dc.description.noteOctober 2011en_US


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