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Overcoming Dichotomous Views on Disability through Social Discourse

Korean Studies Quarterly / Korean Studies Quarterly, (P)2671-8197; (E)2733-936X
2014, v.37 no.4, pp.163-190
https://doi.org/10.25024/ksq.37.4.201412.163

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Abstract

This paper deals with the social discourse on disability based on dichotomous views and tries to show a new way of thinking. It is generally understood that the disability is the cause of inequality and discrimination of the disabled people. But inequality and discrimination of the disabled people arise not out of the disability itself, but it is connected with social consciousness. This Paper is to trace back to the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, middle age and modern western society in order to disclose that the social discourse of disability based on dichotomous views was the cause of inequality and discrimination of the disabled people. If we look back at history of western Philosophy since Plato, we can find It that dichotomous views exert strongly its influence on the mainstream of western philosophy. As G. Deleuze and M. Foucault criticized sharply, dichotomous views that divided perfection and imperfection, equality and inequality, normal and abnormal could be easily connected with conceptions of discrimination. On a basis of this dichotomous views, social prejudice of disability was formed and it permeated through all society. As a result, people take it for granted that disability is discriminated and excluded from society. As Nora Ellen Groce says, disability is a social construct. The main cause of discrimination and exclusion of disability is not connected with disability itself, but social prejudice based on dichotomous views. To overcome discrimination of disability, to change social prejudice of disability, this paper refered to ancient chinese Philosopher Chuang ‒ntzu who criticised the dichotomous ways of thinking and views. He showed whole dimension of Dao. In it we find a new way of thinking and view on disability.

keywords
장애, 플라톤, 들뢰즈, 푸코, 장자, 이분법적 시선, 장애에 대한 사회적 담론, 완전/불완전, 정상/비정상, 사회적 가공구조물, disability, Plato, Deleuze, Foucault, Chuang‒htzu, dichotomous way of thinking, social discourse of disability, perfection and imperfection, normal and abnormal, a social construct


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