Disability as a Cultural Problem

• Authors: Johnathan Flowers

Abstracts

EN

This paper aims to reframe disability through John Dewey’s transactional theory of culture to indicate how disability is not located in the biological organization of the individual nor in the organization of culture, but in the transactions between the two. This paper will apply Dewey’s theory of culture to disability studies and philosophy of disability and then to ADHD to make clear the benefits of a transactional model of disability.

Keywords

EN

pragmatism; disability; culture; transaction; habit

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski
• Journal: Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 39-61

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Johnathan Flowers

• Department of Philosophy & Religion, American University

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14394/eidos.jpc.2021.0038

Biblioteka Nauki

2044654