Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment

by Jonathan Sterne

Book Overview

In Diminished Faculties Jonathan Sterne offers a sweeping cultural study and theorization of impairment. Drawing on his personal history with thyroid cancer and a paralyzed vocal cord, Sterne undertakes a political phenomenology of impairment, in which experience is understood from the standpoint of a subject that is not fully able to account for itself. He conceives of impairment as a fundamental dimension of human experience, examining it...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478017708
• ISBN13: 9781478017707
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"