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Images of Idiocy

Author : Martin Halliwell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351928848
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Images of Idiocy written by Martin Halliwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the concept of idiocy as it has developed in fiction and film in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It focuses particularly on visual images of idiocy and argues that writers as diverse as Gustave Flaubert, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Joseph Conrad, John Steinbeck, Flannery O'Connor and Rohinton Mistry, and filmmakers such as Jean Renoir, Akira Kurosawa, Alfred Hitchcock, Werner Herzog and John Huston have all been attracted to idiot figures as a way of thinking through issues of language acquisition, intelligence, creativity, disability, religion and social identity. Martin Halliwell provides a lively and detailed discussion of the most significant literary and cinematic uses of idiocy, arguing that scientific conceptions of the term as a classifiable medical condition are much too narrow. With the explosion of interest in idiocy among American and European filmmakers in the 1990s and the growing interest in its often overlooked history, this book offers a timely reassessment of idiocy and its distinctive place at the intersection of science and culture.

Idiocy

Author : Patrick McDonagh
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1846310954
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book Idiocy written by Patrick McDonagh and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ancient Athens, “idiots” were those selfish citizens who dishonorably declined to participate in the life of the polis, and whose disavowal of the public interest was seen as poor taste and an indication of judgment. Over time, however, the term idiot has shifted from that philosophically uncomplicated definition to an ever-changing sociological signifier, encompassing a wide range of meanings and beliefs for those concerned with intellectual and cognitive disability. Idiocy: A Cultural History offers for the first time a analysis of the concept, drawing on cultural, sociological, scientific, and popular representations ranging from Wordsworth’s “Idiot Boy” and Dickens’ Barnaby Rudge to Down’s “Ethnic classification of idiots.” It tracks how our changing definition of idiocy intersects with demography, political movements, philosophical traditions, economic concerns, and the growth of the medical profession.

Those They Called Idiots

Author : Simon Jarrett
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789143020
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Those They Called Idiots written by Simon Jarrett and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2025-04-12 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sensitive and sweeping, this is a history of the little-known lives of people with learning disabilities from the communities of eighteenth-century England, to the nineteenth-century asylum, to care in today’s society. Those They Called Idiots traces the little-known lives of people with learning disabilities from the communities of eighteenth-century England to the nineteenth-century asylum, to care in today’s society. Using evidence from civil and criminal courtrooms, joke books, slang dictionaries, novels, art, and caricature, it explores the explosive intermingling of ideas about intelligence and race, while bringing into sharp focus the lives of people often seen as the most marginalized in society.

The Power of Positive Idiocy

Author : David Feherty
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385530749
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book The Power of Positive Idiocy written by David Feherty and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Feherty, ex-pro golfer and current commentator at NBC Sports and the Golf Channel, delivers a laugh-out-loud funny and totally uncensored collection of rants sure to surprise and crack up golfers everywhere. Have you ever wondered where the weaknesses are in Tiger's game? Or what would happen if there were PGA Tour cheerleaders? Or how Old Tom Morris would play if he came back from the dead? In The Power of Positive Idiocy, readers will be treated to Feherty's answers to these questions, as well as his distinctive commentary on aging, Texas, the Irish, parenting, addiction, Charles Barkley, and, of course, every pro golfer and golfing situation you can imagine. Full of great laughs, ridiculous wisecracks, and some of the best advice for anyone new to the game of golf, Feherty’s remarkable collection is a must have for golfers of every stripe.

Testing Fate

Author : Shelley Z. Reuter
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452951896
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Testing Fate written by Shelley Z. Reuter and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s world, responsible biocitizenship has become a new way of belonging in society. Individuals are expected to make “responsible” medical choices, including the decision to be screened for genetic disease. Paradoxically, we have even come to see ourselves as having the right to be responsible vis-à-vis the proactive mitigation of genetic risk. At the same time, the concept of genetic disease has become a new and powerful way of defining the boundaries between human groups. Tay-Sachs, an autosomal recessive disorder, is a case in point—with origins in the period of Eastern European Jewish immigration to the United States and United Kingdom that spanned the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it has a long and fraught history as a marker of Jewish racial difference. In Testing Fate, Shelley Z. Reuter asks: Can the biocitizen, especially one historically defined as a racialized and pathologized Other, be said to be exercising authentic, free choice in deciding whether to undertake genetic screening? Drawing on a range of historical and contemporary examples—doctors’ medical reports of Tay-Sachs since the first case was documented in 1881, the medical field’s construction of Tay-Sachs as a disease of Jewish immigrants, YouTube videos of children with Tay-Sachs that frame the disease as tragic disability avoidable through a simple genetic test, and medical malpractice suits since the test for the disease became available—Reuter shows that true agency in genetic decision-making can be exercised only from a place of cultural inclusion. Choice in this context is in fact a kind of unfreedom—a moral duty to act that is not really agency at all.

Idiocy: and Its Treatment by the Physiological Method

Author : Edward Seguin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Idiocy: and Its Treatment by the Physiological Method written by Edward Seguin and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Crossing Boundaries

Author : Julie Scanlon
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847142508
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Crossing Boundaries written by Julie Scanlon and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eclectic collection interrogates boundaries with reference to nineteenth and twentieth-century literature, performance, music and film from a diverse range of critical and theoretical perspectives. The authors probe the issue of negotiating boundaries in their innovative and imaginative investigations of science in Dickens, Eliot and Pater; narrative in Hawking and Weinberg; Bakhtin and the feminization of translation; lesbian romance by Jeanette Winterson; transitional females in migrant postcolonial fiction; pedagogy in South Africa; materiality and hypertext; the semiotic and money in Jay McInerney; the role of clichT in Beckett; music in Wim Wenders; the 'real' in fiction, theory and performance; creative and academic writing; politics and aesthetics. Original contributions by Terry Eagleton and Sally Shuttleworth support this volume's exciting challenge to established boundaries and help to make it a scintillating and thought-provoking read.

Idiocy, Imbecility and Insanity in Victorian Society

Author : Stef Eastoe
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030273350
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Idiocy, Imbecility and Insanity in Victorian Society written by Stef Eastoe and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the understudied history of the so-called ‘incurables’ in the Victorian period, the people identified as idiots, imbeciles and the weak-minded, as opposed to those thought to have curable conditions. It focuses on Caterham, England’s first state imbecile asylum, and analyses its founding, purpose, character, and most importantly, its residents, innovatively recreating the biographies of these people. Created to relieve pressure on London’s overcrowded workhouses, Caterham opened in September 1870. It was originally intended as a long-stay institution for the chronic and incurable insane paupers of the metropolis, more commonly referred to as idiots and imbeciles. This purpose instantly differentiates Caterham from the more familiar, and more researched, lunatic asylums, which were predicated on the notion of cure and restoration of the senses. Indeed Caterham, built following the welfare and sanitary reforms of the late 1860s, was an important feature of the Victorian institutional landscape, and it represented a shift in social, medical and political responsibility towards the care and management of idiot and imbecile paupers.

A Disability History of the United States

Author : Kim E. Nielsen
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807022039
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book A Disability History of the United States written by Kim E. Nielsen and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to cover the entirety of disability history, from pre-1492 to the present Disability is not just the story of someone we love or the story of whom we may become; rather it is undoubtedly the story of our nation. Covering the entirety of US history from pre-1492 to the present, A Disability History of the United States is the first book to place the experiences of people with disabilities at the center of the American narrative. In many ways, it’s a familiar telling. In other ways, however, it is a radical repositioning of US history. By doing so, the book casts new light on familiar stories, such as slavery and immigration, while breaking ground about the ties between nativism and oralism in the late nineteenth century and the role of ableism in the development of democracy. A Disability History of the United States pulls from primary-source documents and social histories to retell American history through the eyes, words, and impressions of the people who lived it. As historian and disability scholar Nielsen argues, to understand disability history isn’t to narrowly focus on a series of individual triumphs but rather to examine mass movements and pivotal daily events through the lens of varied experiences. Throughout the book, Nielsen deftly illustrates how concepts of disability have deeply shaped the American experience—from deciding who was allowed to immigrate to establishing labor laws and justifying slavery and gender discrimination. Included are absorbing—at times horrific—narratives of blinded slaves being thrown overboard and women being involuntarily sterilized, as well as triumphant accounts of disabled miners organizing strikes and disability rights activists picketing Washington. Engrossing and profound, A Disability History of the United States fundamentally reinterprets how we view our nation’s past: from a stifling master narrative to a shared history that encompasses us all.

Idiocy: and its treatment by the physiological method

Author : Edward Seguin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Idiocy: and its treatment by the physiological method written by Edward Seguin and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On the Causes of Idiocy

Author : Samuel Gridley Howe
Publisher : Ayer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780405039553
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book On the Causes of Idiocy written by Samuel Gridley Howe and published by Ayer Publishing. This book was released on 1858 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stupidity in Politics

Author : Nobutaka Otobe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429960468
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Stupidity in Politics written by Nobutaka Otobe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-11 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stupidity permeates our perception and practice of politics. We frequently accuse politicians, bureaucrats, journalists, voters, "elites," and "the masses" for their stupidities. In fact, it is not only "populist politicians," "sensational journalism," and "uneducated voters" who are accused of stupidity. Similar accusations can be, and in fact have been, made concerning those who criticize them as well. It seems that stupidity is ubiquitous, unable to be contained within or attributed to one specific political position, personal trait, or even ignorance and erroneous reasoning Undertaking a theoretical investigation of stupidity, this book challenges the assumption that stupidity can be avoided. Otobe argues that the very ubiquity of stupidity implies its unavoidability—that we cannot contain it in such domains as error, ignorance, or "post-truth." What we witness is rather that one’s reasoning can be sound, evidence-based, and stupid. In revealing this unavoidability, he contends that stupidity is an ineluctable problem not only of politics, but also of thinking. We become stupid because we think: It is impossible to distinguish a priori stupid thought from upright, righteous thought. Moreover, the failure to address the unavoidability of stupidity leads political theory to the failure to acknowledge the productive moments that experiences of stupidity harbor within. Such productive moments constitute the potential of stupidity—that radical new ideas can emerge out of our seemingly banal and stupid thinking in our daily political activity.

The Idiot

Author : Elif Batuman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 014311106X
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Idiot written by Elif Batuman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Notable Book • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction • Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction “Easily the funniest book I’ve read this year.” —GQ “Masterly funny debut novel . . . Erudite but never pretentious, The Idiot will make you crave more books by Batuman.” —Sloane Crosley, Vanity Fair A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings. At the end of the school year, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivan's friends. On the way, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Selin's summer in Europe does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of American college students, or indeed of any other kinds of people. For Selin, this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer. With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom; its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself. The Idiot is a heroic yet self-effacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting. Batuman's fiction is unguarded against both life's affronts and its beauty--and has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling which they entail. Named one the best books of the year by Refinery29 • Mashable One • Elle Magazine • The New York Times • Bookpage • Vogue • NPR • Buzzfeed •The Millions

Wisdom of the Idiots

Author : Idries Shah
Publisher : Octagon Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0863040462
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Wisdom of the Idiots written by Idries Shah and published by Octagon Press Ltd. This book was released on 1989 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales from the Sufi tradition, illustrating Sufi philosophy and ways of thinking.

Mental Retardation

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Mental Retardation written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Proceedings of the American Medico-Psychological Association ... Annual Meeting

Author : American Psychiatric Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the American Medico-Psychological Association ... Annual Meeting written by American Psychiatric Association and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in each volume except v. 27.

Program [of The] Annual Meeting

Author : American Medico-Psychological Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Program [of The] Annual Meeting written by American Medico-Psychological Association and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: