Martin Robb

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332 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 1 Jul

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Careful Thinking · Disability, dependency, and care - with Eva Feder Kittay · 1 Jul 2026 podcast

But can I ask can I begin our discussion of the book by asking you about

The way in which you combine the personal and the philosophical.

You write in the book, once I began to write on the topic, my philosophical and my personal life were joined.

I'd broken the prohibition of subjective inquiry, and my life with Sasha could not be put back into the genie's bottle.

And you write elsewhere that my daughter is more an inspiration, and you ac and yet while she is not an interlocutor, in a sip philosophical dialogue, she and my life.

life with her, define this philosophical inquiry and you suggest you're following in the steps of other feminists and uh writers of colour who've combined the personal and the philosophical or political.

How did you find that process?

Was it difficult to combine or intertwine the two?

Thank you.

And and I think one of the ways in which you say that

Living with Sasha has transformed your thinking, is i is it leading you to analyze and challenge conventional notions of what's understood by a normal life and what constitutes a good life?

And you take Martha Nussbaum and others to task for insisting that the capacity for reason is essential to so-called normality and that the good life must always include the life of the mind.

You argue for what you call more capacious norms.

And you want to convey, quote, how much quality can be had from a life without what so many to take take to be a normal life.

But you go beyond this to suggest that when we relinquish norms that include the possibility of having a good life when a person's capacities are impaired, capacities thought indispensable for a life that goes well, we see what h sits at the heart of any good life.

And you write, for example, about Setha's love of music, her capacity for joy

So I wonder what did you learn from this analysis of a so called impaired life about what constitutes a good life for all of us or any of us?

Yes, although

The your own writing on on that in in those chapters is also beautiful and move and moving as well.

And I just encourage people if they haven't to to read the book because it's a very it's a very moving as well as enlightening experience.

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