Dean’s Book
Fundraising campaign by
Sayyeda Zainab
-
US$370.00Donated So Far
Campaign Story
Hi
My name is Dean
To publish the book I need to raise 300 dollars. I am asking for donations because I live on a disabilty and live on a very limited income and I cannot afford to raise the money myself. I would really appriciate any support people could give. This book is being published by members of the Sayyeda Zainab Libary. Which has a large online libary of Sufi and Ahlul Bayt texts.
My upcoming book, Disability and Embodiment: Towards and Ethic of Welcoming
In this will bookI will examine two ethics of the body and disability. Firstly I
will examine Foucault analysis of Biopolitics and examine how Biopolitics
formulates an ethics of the body that marginalizes and stigmatizes disabled
individuals. I will then examine how Peter Singer’s thought is an instance of a
biopolitical way dealing with the body and disability.
To do this I must first examine his general ethic framework and then I will examine his writing on the ethical situations that arise when one is confronted with problems that relate to disability. I will show how Singer conclusions posit a particular understanding of personhood, and our ethical responsibility towards the other.
In contrast to Singer’s thought, which I see as an instance of a biopolitical ethics of the body and disability, I will examine Levinas’ and Derrida’s concept of hospitality as an alternative ethical schema for problems that arise out of questions of disability. In Derrida’s and Levinas’ thought we can never know the other as other. His or her difference always escapes a complete understanding and eludes our cognitive frameworks. To approach the other in his or her difference, Derrida and Levinas argue that we must adopt a stance of hospitality. Hospitality for Derrida and Levinas, means making a place within one’s self to welcome the other’s singularity which one cannot not know, and allowing oneself to be affected, disrupted and changed by encountering the other’s difference. Derrida writes that the other’s difference always places an infinite demand on us to welcome him or her, and that our subjectivity is formed in relation to the demand of the other. Our response to the other is always incomplete and in relation to a singular context. It is my belief that hospitality is a concept that is
particularly useful in working with the phenomenon of disability because disability i
usually conceptualized in such a way that stigmatizes and marginalizes individuals
with disabilities. Further, it is my contention that because the difference of disability
stands marked as different that welcoming the difference that disability presents
points to a greater understanding of the singularity of all bodies and minds and how
our relationship to, and ability to be affected by the others differences is vital to that
what makes us human.
Salaam and thank you,
Dean (Nureddin)
Image Credit- Hatice Kauffman
Organizer
- Sayyeda Zainab
- Toronto, CA
Sayyeda Zainab Foundation is an independent Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) founded in 2009
Sayyeda Zainab Foundation is an independent Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) founded in 2009
Donors
- Anonymous
- Donated on Jan 30, 2023
- Anonymous
- Donated on Dec 28, 2022
Congratulations!
- Thomas Rippe
- Donated on Dec 27, 2022
No updates for this campaign just yet
Donors & Comments
- Anonymous
- Donated on Jan 30, 2023
- Anonymous
- Donated on Dec 28, 2022
Congratulations!
- Thomas Rippe
- Donated on Dec 27, 2022
- Saskia Friedrich
- Donated on Dec 27, 2022
Can’t wait to read it
- Ali Rahman
- Donated on Dec 14, 2022
- Kristen Gillespie-Lynch
- Donated on Dec 13, 2022
Happy birthday, Dean! So cool you are publishing your thesis.
- Jorge Rodriguez
- Donated on Dec 09, 2022
- Anonymous
- Donated on Dec 07, 2022