Autism, phenomenology and the normative context of lived experience

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dc.contributor.advisorVasterling, V.
dc.contributor.authorBloem, S.
dc.date.issued2021-10-05
dc.description.abstractIn the article, I evaluate phenomenological accounts of autism as a distinct kind of intersubjectivity, based on ethical concerns raised by the neurodiversity movement and a critical phenomenological approach. The enactive and the developmental present autism as a “disturbed” bodily being with others. The neurodiversity movement contests the assumption that autism is inherently pathological and challenges the biomedical model of autism. In relation to classic phenomenology, critical phenomenology places a larger emphasis on ways in which contingent historical and social structures shape our experience. While the enactive and the developmental account question certain aspects of the biomedical model of autism, I argue they apply the “norm of normalcy” and re-naturalise the assumption of pathology into their account. Consequently, to resolve the aforementioned problem, phenomenological research on autism needs to incorporate intersectional autistic lived experiences and examine them given their normative and social context in the historically constituted lifeworld.en_US
dc.embargo.lift10000-01-01
dc.embargo.typePermanent embargoen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://theses.ubn.ru.nl/handle/123456789/11536
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.thesis.facultyFaculteit der Filosofie, Theologie en Religiewetenschappenen_US
dc.thesis.specialisationSocial and Political Philosophyen_US
dc.thesis.studyprogrammePhilosophy: Research Masteren_US
dc.thesis.typeMasteren_US
dc.titleAutism, phenomenology and the normative context of lived experienceen_US
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