Другият като различно и чуждо тяло: преосмисляне на понятието „увреждане“
The Other as a Different and Strange Body: Reconsideration of the Notion of „Disability“

Summary/Abstract: This article considers a principal difficulty, which stays in front of the researcher dealing with the world of disabled people. What kind of methods is relevant for an attempt to overcome the border between Me and the Other? The argumentation develops in three steps. First, this text handles with the tension between „My body“ as an object of the research and Me as a subject who thematizes this body. Am I able to „go out“ of my body, is it possible to avoid solipsism and the „techniques“ of the analogical apperception concerning the Other? Second, the attention is drawn to the strangeness of the Other’s body: its relation to the world as an existential horizon reveals its incommensurability. The paper focuses on this incommensurability, which opens up a necessity to give a new meaning to the notion disability. Third, the author doubts the validity of a certain classical approach concerning the attitude to the Other and seeks the possibility of „alternative“ methodological applications.

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