Yesterday, we ran a wonderful two-part pre-publication launch of The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability (which I have edited) at the truly incredible hybrid philoSOPHIA conference that Andrea Pitts and Elisabeth Paquette organized. The entire conference was a testament to how a well-planned hybrid conference can be engaging and inclusive, as well as build community. Andrea and Elisabeth put together an outstanding multi-lingual event and must be commended.

In the afternoon portion of the launch, an attendee asked me in the Zoom chat when it would be possible to pre-order The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability. In response, Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril, a contributor to the book and participant in the launch, linked to a page on the Bloomsbury site for the book, where the book can now be pre-ordered. The site, which is under construction and must have been put up on Friday afternoon after I last talked with my editors at Bloomsbury, includes the table of contents for the book and a description of the book that they put together. I hope that their description will be replaced with the description that I have written below! The date for publication is also inaccurate at present on the site. The book is expected out in October. The cover design will be made public soon.

Prospective description of the book to be used on the site:

The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability is a revolutionary collection encompassing the most innovative and insurgent work in philosophy of disability. Edited and anthologized by disabled philosopher Shelley Lynn Tremain, this book challenges how disability has been historically (mis)represented and (mis)understood in philosophy, critically undermining the deleterious assumptions that various subfields of philosophy—including bioethics, philosophy of mind, ethics, and political philosophy—produce; resisting the institutionalized ableism of academia to which these assumptions contribute; and boldly articulating new anti-ableist, anti-sexist, anti-racist, queer, anti-capitalist, anti-carceral, and decolonial insights and perspectives that counter these assumptions.

The book is extremely wide-ranging and comprises chapters written almost exclusively by disabled philosophers, including chapters that underscore the eugenic impetus at the heart of bioethics; chapters that talk back to the whiteness of work on philosophy and disability with which philosophy of disability is often conflated; and chapters that elaborate phenomenological, poststructuralist, and materialist analyses of (for example) disability, race, and algorithms; race, disability, and reproductive technologies; disability and music; disabled and trans identities and emotions; and disability, race, and risk. The book’s cutting-edge analyses contest the assumptions of Western disability studies through the lens of African philosophy of disability and the developing framework of crip Filipino philosophy; articulate the political and conceptual limits of common constructions of inclusion and accessibility; foreground the practices of epistemic injustice that neurominoritized people routinely confront in philosophy and society more broadly; and advance the emerging field of philosophy of disability as an antidote to the exclusion of disabled philosophers from the discipline and profession of philosophy.

It is VERY exciting that the book can now be pre-ordered online, with a discount! To place your pre-order for this pathbreaking collection, go here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/bloomsbury-guide-to-philosophy-of-disability-9781350268913/