Well the body and the brain (we are to suppose) are physical, but that brain has this nasty habit of
causing us to think ourselves into being if not to drink itself out of being (Bruce,1970)
Who can say for sure for whilst I would like to believe there is a physical world out there which I
can kick as surely as Johnson refuting Berkeley, I still have to take it on trust the evil genius
didn't write the books first and bring me into being believing that there was something else out
there besides me :)
Whatever, there are those out there who would credit the later Kant's writing to a tumour of his
rather than the man himself,(Gazzaniga, 1998)
Larry (2008 and still going)
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> Hello Helen and All,
>
> Actually I am not surprised at the quote. At the risk of
> opening an old chestnut, Murphy's book the "silent body" as
> a source is often used to buttress the support for the
> impairment model of disability. Murphy draws on the concept
> of liminality - not alive and not dead disability occupying
> the space between.
>
> Myself I agree with the Tremain who sees impairment as
> socially constructed. I do not deny the materiality of the
> body but see it as affirming.
>
> cheers,
> Jim
>
> James Overboe
> Assistant Professor
> Sociology Department
> Cultural Analysis and Social Theory M.A. Program Wilfrid
> Laurier University
> >>> "Bryant, Helen" <[log in to unmask]> 04/30/08 8:25 AM >>>
> C H A P T E R 1 3 (In 'Disability Studies: Past Present and
> Future' edited by Len Barton and Mike Oliver (1997), Leeds:
> The Disability Press, pp. 217 - 233).
>
> Cultural Representation of Disabled People: dustbins for disavowal?
> Tom Shakespeare
> (First published 1994)
> http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/archiveuk/Shakespear
e/chapter13.pdf
>
> The long-term physically impaired are neither sick nor well,
> neither dead nor alive, neither out of society nor wholly in
> it. They are human beings but their bodies are warped or
> malfunctioning, leaving their full humanity in doubt. They
> are not ill, for illness is transitional to either death or
> recovery.... The sick person lives in a state of social
> suspension until he or she gets better. The disabled [sic]
> spend a lifetime in a similar suspended state. They are
> neither fish nor fowl; they exist in partial isolation from
> society as undefined, ambiguous people. (Murphy, 1987, p. 112)
>
> How about THIS for a quote? UGGH! Can you believe how
> RECENTLY it was written?
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