Description Crippled Grace combines Disability studies, Christian theology, philosophy, and psychology to explore what constitutes happiness and how it is achieved.
About the Author Shane Clifton is Honorary Associate and Professor at the Centre of Disabil.
In so doing, Clifton shows that the experience of Disability has something profound to say about all bodies, about the fragility and happiness of all humans, and about the deeper truths offered us by the theological virtues of faith, hope, and love.
First unmasking Disability as a bodily and sociocultural construct, Clifton moves on to construct a deeper and more expansive account of flourishing that learns from those with disability, rather than excluding them.
Yet, Clifton also understands Disability as symbolic of the human condition--human fragility, vulnerability, and embodied limits.
Crippled Grace is about and for people with disabilities.
Through his engagement with sources from Aristotle to modern positive psychology, Clifton is able to probe fundamental questions of pain and suffering, reflect on the value of friendship, seek creative ways of conceiving of sexual flourishing, and outline the particular virtues needed to live with unique bodies and brains in a society poorly fitted to their diverse functioning.
Drawing upon the Virtue tradition as much as contesting it, Clifton explores the virtues that help to negotiate dependency, resist paternalism, and maximize personal agency.
With its origins in the author\'s experience of adjusting to the challenges of quadriplegia, Crippled Grace considers the diverse experiences of people with a Disability as a lens through which to understand happiness and its attainment.
Drawing upon this particular understanding of happiness, Clifton contends that the experience of Disability offers significant insight into the practice of virtue, and thereby the Good life.
The Virtue tradition construes happiness as whole-of-Life flourishing earned by practiced habits of virtue.
Description Crippled Grace combines Disability studies, Christian theology, philosophy, and psychology to explore what constitutes happiness and how it is achieved
