Philosophy’s Real-World Consequences for Deaf People: Thoughts on Iconicity, Sign Language and Being Deaf
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The body of philosophical knowledge concerning the relations among language, the senses, and deafness, interpreted as a canon of key ideas which have found their way into folk metaphysics, constitutes one of the historically sustained conditions of the oppression of deaf people. Jonathan Rée, with his book I See a Voice, makes the point that a philosophical history, grounded in a phenomenological and causal concern with philosophical thought and social life, can offer an archaeology of philosophy’s contribution to the social oppression of
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