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Introducing disability aesthetics -- The aesthetics of human disqualification -- What can disability studies learn from the culture wars? -- Disability and art vandalism -- Trauma art : injury and wounding in the media age -- Words stare like a glass eye : disability in literary and visual studies -- Conclusion : disability in the mirror of art

Je mehr wir in der Moderne ankommen, umso stärker wirkt die Gleichung zwischen Kunst und Behinderung - bis Kunst kaum mehr ohne den Schatten der Behinderung wahrgenommen werden kann. Tatsächlich ist diese Gleichung so stark, dass wir Schwierigkeiten haben, Kunstwerke der Vergangenheit nicht nach Maßgabe moderner Bilder von Behinderung zu sehen. Die Essays von Tobin Siebers konzipieren dagegen Kunst als einen Bereich, in dem Behinderung einen eigenständigen ästhetischen Wert besitzt.

Je mehr wir in der Moderne ankommen, umso stärker wirkt die Gleichung zwischen Kunst und Behinderung - bis Kunst kaum mehr ohne den Schatten der Behinderung wahrgenommen werden kann. Tatsächlich ist diese Gleichung so stark, dass wir Schwierigkeiten haben, Kunstwerke der Vergangenheit nicht nach Maßgabe moderner Bilder von Behinderung zu sehen. Die Essays konzipieren dagegen Kunst als einen Bereich, in dem Behinderung einen eigenständigen ästhetischen Wert besitzt.

Introduction -- Tender organs, narcissism, and identity politics -- Body theory : from social construction to the new realism of the body -- Disability studies and the future of identity politics -- Disability as masquerade -- Disability experience on trial -- A sexual culture for disabled people -- Sex, shame, and disability identity : with reference to Mark O'Brien -- Disability and the right to have rights -- Conclusion

Introduction: ethics ad nauseam -- What does postmodernism want? Utopia -- Multiculturalism, or the ethics of anti-ethnocentrism -- Reading for character : where it was, I must come to be -- What is there? : a dialogue on obscenity, sexuality, and the sublime -- Politics and peace

Tobin Siebers asserts that literary criticism is essentially a form of ethics. The Ethics of Criticism investigates the moral character of contemporary literary theory, assessing a wide range of theoretical approaches in terms of both the ethical presuppositions underlying the critical claims and the attitudes fostered by the approaches. Building on analyses of the moral legacies of Plato, Kant, Nietzsche, and Freud, Siebers identifies the various fronts on which the concerns of critical theory impinge on those of ethics.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-225) and index. ; Introduction -- Tender organs, narcissism, and identity politics -- Body theory : from social construction to the new realism of the body -- Disability studies and the future of identity politics -- Disability as masquerade -- Disability experience on trial -- A sexual culture for disabled people -- Sex, shame, and disability identity : with reference to Mark O'Brien -- Disability and the right to have rights -- Conclusion. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; U. Michigan Faculty Author

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Why "Against Health"? -- Part I : What Is Health, Anyway? -- 2. What Is Health and How Do You Get It? -- 3 Risky Bigness: On Obesity, Eating, and the Ambiguity of "Health" -- 4 Against Global Health? Arbitrating Science, Non-Science, and Nonsense through Health -- Part II : Seeing Health through Morality -- 5 The Social Immorality of Health in the Gene Age: Race, Disability, and Inequality -- 6. Fat Panic and the New Morality -- 7 Against Breastfeeding (Sometimes) -- Part III : Making Health and Disease -- 8 Pharmaceutical Propaganda -- 9 The Strangely Passive-Aggressive History of Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder -- 10 Obsession: Against Mental Health -- 11 Atomic Health, or How The Bomb Altered American Notions of Death -- Part IV : Pleasure and Pain after Health -- 12 How Much Sex Is Healthy? The Pleasures of Asexuality -- 13 Be Prepared -- 14 In the Name of Pain -- 15 Conclusion: What Next? -- About the Contributors -- Index