Receiving the Gift of Cognitive Disability
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3152121 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patrick Mckearney (0000-0001-8988-0101, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-7674 • E-ISSN: 2047-7716 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/cja.2018.360104 |
| OpenAlex | W2801013453 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 41 |
How valuable can people with mental disabilities be to others? In this article I present ethnographic material on L’Arche, a Christian charity that provides care. I describe how carers there are trained to see cognitive disability as producing not simply an absence of rational agency, but also the presence of a quite different way of actively inhabiting the world. I argue that, by learning to recognize and value this unusual kind of agency, carers in L’Arche subvert the terms of a recent philosophical debate about the worth of people with cognitive disabilities. They demonstrate that people can value others not just as rational moral subjects, or simply as passive objects of care, but also as charismatic and intuitive agents who actively depart from standard norms of personhood
Charisma · Cognition · Cognitive disabilities · Epistemology · Ethnography · Personhood · Political science · Psychiatry · Social science · Sociology · Ethics in medical practice · Law · Patient Dignity and Privacy · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
Narrowed Lives
Care
The Duty of Love
Affordances of Fun
The Limits of Knowing Other Minds
The Limits of Knowing Other Minds
From problem‐centered to centering relationalities
‘Why Bother?’ Skeptical Doubt and Moral Imagination in Care for People with Profound Intellectual Disabilities
The Weight of Living
Truth or Trick
Intellectual Disability
Careful Practices
Is a Psychotic Anthropology Possible? Or How to Have Inclusive Anthropologies of Subjectivity and Personhood
Discerning personhood through lena-dena
Disabling violence
At the Edges of Liberal Care
The Ability to Judge
Furta sacra
At the Margins of Moral Personhood
The Ethics of Care, Dependence, and Disability
Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande
Ordinary Ethics
Equality, Freedom, and/or Justice for All
Love’s Labor
The Personal Is Philosophical Is Political
Fault Lines in the Anthropology of Ethics
Moving by the Spirit
The Ethics of Everyday Life
An Anthropology of Ethics
Christian Wisdom
Bad Souls
The Human Condition
Ethics, the householder's dilemma, and the difficulty of reality
From Max Weber
Furta Sacra
The Subject of Virtue
The Cult of the Saints
The Ritual Process
Onde no mundo estão os valores? Exemplaridade, Moralidade e Processo Social
Toward an ethical practice in the Anthropocene
Anthropologies of ethics
Reverberations
Enabling Disability
The subject that is not one
Dreams from Elsewhere
L'Arche, Learning Disability, and Domestic Citizenship
Witnessing a potent truth
Paradoxical paradigms
Transgressing the Self
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |