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The difference (of idiots)

This article aims to think the singularity of difference froms the point of view of I'll call the 'difference of idiots', taking this expression in the original sense (idiôtés) of the term: the beings without a political existence. The author explore this expression, not in his mere conceptual abstraction, but in its invasion and incidence in the existential experience of the fragility and vulnerability, such it is shown in the unique experience of being disabled person.

idiocy; difference; vulnerability; disability; Deligny


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