Kirjahaku

Shared Musical Lives makes the case for the epistemological and ethical significance of musical experience. Music can be a source of self-knowledge and self-expression, and hence reveal important dimensions of the self to others. This knowledge—of both self and of others—has a moral force as well. Shared musical experience can transform and establish new modes of being with others, cultivate virtues, and expand the moral imagination. The term sonification (which means translating data into non-verbal audible tones) provides an organizing principle for the arguments in the book. Transposing the concept into a philosophical key, this book explores two forms of sonification: first, the process by which musical experience reveals dimensions of the self and relationships with others; and second, philosophical sonification, or the critical examination of philosophical concepts, arguments, and theories in view of what musical experience reveals. These two kinds of sonification are discussed specifically in the context of disability. In this book, author Licia Carlson brings the musical lives of people with cognitive and intellectual disabilities into the foreground in order to challenge and broaden existing conceptions of disability and music and provide new ways of thinking about the philosophies of music and disability.

In a challenge to current thinking about cognitive impairment, this book explores what it means to treat people with intellectual disabilities in an ethical manner. Reassessing philosophical views of intellectual disability, Licia Carlson shows how we can affirm the dignity and worth of intellectually disabled people first by ending comparisons to nonhuman animals and then by confronting our fears and discomforts. Carlson presents the complex history of ideas about cognitive disability, the treatment of intellectually disabled people, and social and cultural reactions to them. Sensitive and clearly argued, this book offers new insights on recent trends in disability studies and philosophy.

Teresa Renda Carlson fue diagnosticada con c ncer de mama a los 29 a os, una madre joven con una hija de 17 meses de edad, en 1972-cuando los tratamientos eran devastadores, las posibilidades de supervivencia pocas y el tema, tab . A los 35 a os Carlson hab a sobrevivido a dos ataques del c ncer y a una mastectom a radical doble, escribi estas memorias inspirada en un acto de catarsis y como una invitaci n a romper el silencio destructivo que rodea al c ncer de mama. Como Teresa observa, s lo cuando reconocemos y compartimos el sufrimiento, es cuando podemos comenzar a sanar y seguir adelante. Tres d cadas m s tarde, con su historia y sus sabias estrategias, ha conseguido hacer frente a la p rdida y a la mortalidad, a trav s de juicios eternos como la literatura cl sica que se ve reflejada a lo largo de estas convincentes p ginas. Que su viaje sea tu gu a.

In this heartfelt tribute to the most inspiring women in her life, Teresa Renda Carlson reveals how one life can be powerfully shaped by the collective influence of others. With the threads of support and positive examples set by the ladies profiled in these pages, Teresa has weaved a life of survival, generosity, beauty, and inspiration to so many others in turn. And through her gratitude for the gifts that each woman has shared with her, Teresa gives us a gift in return. The Many Faces of Women serves as a profound reminder of our interconnectedness, and its power to lift and sustain us no matter what hardships life may inevitably deliver. Proceeds from sales of this book go to food pantries in Boston and Detroit.