Autistic Company: Translated from the Dutch by Lynne Richards - Couverture souple

Hendriks, Ruud

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9042035757 ISBN 13 : 9789042035751

Editeur : Rodopi, 2012

Synopsis

Social interactions of autistic and non-autistic persons are intriguing. The fact that people with autism and those around them occasionally manage to share things in life represents a remarkable achievementsuch interactions exist despite the lack of familiar ways of attuning to one another. In Autistic Company, the anthropologist and philosopher Ruud Hendrikshimself trained as a care worker for young people with autisminvestigates what alternative means are sometimes found by autistic and non-autistic people to establish a shared existence. Unprecedented in scholarly work on autism, the book also reflects on how to talk about these unusual ways of getting on together. Drawing on methods from both the arts and the social sciences, this study covers very diverse sources, ranging from literary works to factual writing on autism in science and advisory literature, and from autobiographical accounts to ethnographic observations in a home for autistic people. Putting familiar concepts to a test, Autistic Company wrenches and fiddles with the very distinctions that constitute our sense of self. By doing so, Hendriks succeeds in getting closer both to autistic and non-autistic extremes, showing how thin the division between us and them really is. -L.W. Nauta in Krisis

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Originally trained as a professional care worker specialising in cognitive disabilities and autism, Ruud Hendriks (1961) is now Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, Maastricht University, the Netherlands. His research covers cultural perspectives on cognitive disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorder and Dementia in particular. His scholarly work on autism has been awarded with the Praemium Erasmianum of the Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts and Sciences.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rodopi
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9042035757
• ISBN 13: 9789042035751
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 271
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible