Dis/ability, autofiction and moral imagination

Claudia Schumann (Stockholm University)

5.30-7.00 pm
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I explore two books by a group of Swedish LGBTQ youth with disabilities. The texts – blending poetry, prose, fiction and documentary portrayals – provide places for both sharing experience and making visible the authors’ identities as sexed and sexual beings, aspects often disregarded in public perception of persons with disability. Discourses around disability give reason to critically revisit the understanding of rationality in moral theory and the relation between rationality and fiction. The texts challenge generally held philosophical beliefs and open questions central rather than peripheral to ethics. My discussion refer to Alice Crary, Peter Singer, and Eva Kittay.

Claudia Schumann, PhD, currently works as a researcher and teacher at Stockholm University, department of special education. Her work focuses on philosophical questions as they pertain to the field of education. She is particularly interested in the intersections of epistemology and political theory. Recent publications: becoming things, becoming-world. On cosmopolitanism, reification and education (2020), “What is called thinking in education” (2020), “Aversive education” (2019), “On happiness and critique” (2018), “Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Education” (2017).