Includes bibliographical references and index.

Notes on Contributors -- Introduction --   Mélissa Fox-Muraton -- 1 Towards an Existential Concept of (Dis)ability: A Critical Examination of Models of Disability --   Rita Vaičekauskaitė and Jon Stewart -- 2 Heidegger and Garland-Thomson: Uncanniness, Misfitting, and Disability --   Mariah Partida -- 3 Nietzsche, Health, and the Social Construction of Disability: “A New Happiness” --   William A. B. Parkhurst -- 4 Solitude as a Survival Strategy. Cioran on Living with Melancholy --   Hanna Nasielska -- 5 Inability or Disability? An analysis of the Subject’s Inadequate Response in Cioran and Camus --   Maciej Kałuża and Hanna Nasielska -- 6 Individual Suffering: The Existential Dimension of Mental Illness --   René Rosfort -- 7 Becoming Yourself: Existential Authenticity and Mental Illness --   Alycia W. LaGuardia-LoBianco -- 8 Grenzsituationen and Spontaneous Remission in Addiction: A Case Study in Tweaking Phenomenology --   T. Virgil Murthy -- 9 The Cyborg Nature of Cognitive Disabilities: An Existential Analysis of Rationalist Frameworks --   Caroline Christoff -- 10 In the Margins of One’s Own Life: A New Theory of Masking ADHD --   Cal Nelson -- 11 Autistic (Un)Masking and the Challenges of “Authentic” Self-Disclosure --   Mélissa Fox-Muraton -- 12 Stumbling across Language-Games: A Wittgensteinian Perspective on Neurodivergent Communication --   Lisa Haase -- Index.

This volume proposes a novel approach to engaging philosophically with disability studies. Taking as a starting point the fact that disability is an integral part of human existence, the chapters in this volume provide insight into situated, lived experiences of disability in articulation with prominent existential philosophers. Historical and theoretical perspectives bring the dominant models of understanding disability today (medical or biomedical and social) into dialogue with existential philosophical perspectives, and thematic contributions provide insight into specific disabled experiences which have historically been underrepresented in philosophy, including mental illness, addiction, severe cognitive/intellectual disability, ADHD, autism, and neurodivergent communication.

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