Filip Maric will be talking about The fundamental violence of physiotherapy The session is free to join, just use this link at the time shown above: https://aut.zoom.us/j/622770935 Abstract This online session builds on the eponymous article and will discuss ‘The fundamental violence of physiotherapy: Emmanuel Levinas’s critique of ontology and its implications for physiotherapy theory and practice’ (Maric & Nicholls, in review). Ontology and epistemology are generally thought to be the fundamental building blocks of any theory and practice. Levinas’s critique acutely highlights a significant problem that underpins both of these areas of philosophical inquiry and their … [Read more...] about The 7th and final Critical Physiotherapy Course of the year is THIS WEEK
The 7th and final talk in this year’s Critical Physiotherapy Course is next week
The Fundamental Violence of Physiotherapy with Filip Maric Zoom link for the meeting: https://aut.zoom.us/j/622770935 Abstract This online session builds on the eponymous article and will discuss The fundamental violence of physiotherapy: Emmanuel Levinas’s critique of ontology and its implications for physiotherapy theory and practice. Ontology and epistemology are generally thought to be the fundamental building blocks of any theory and practice. Levinas’s critique acutely highlights a significant problem that underpins both of these areas of philosophical inquiry and their understanding and positioning as fundamental. Applied to physiotherapy, this critique … [Read more...] about The 7th and final talk in this year’s Critical Physiotherapy Course is next week
Other ways of looking at others
One of the biggest perks of my job - and there are many - is the opportunity to work with physiotherapists who are looking for new ways to think about their profession. These are some of the people who are offering insights into how physiotherapy might develop in the future, and one theme of some of this work that's emerged in recent years has been around the ethical care of others. What's most interesting for me about this work is how it's inverting the way we've traditionally thought about others, placing the ethics of care before our knowledge of them and their world. Ethics preceding ontology if you will. Here are three examples. Since the start of the year I've been … [Read more...] about Other ways of looking at others