Transformative Experience of Disability and Rediscovery of the Resonant Lifeworld
This project explores the transformative experience of disability through the lens of phenomenological concepts of resonance and lifeworld. It aims to go beyond the dominant social and medical models of disability, proposing instead a phenomenological approach that focuses on the subjective lived experience. Researchers argue that disability can lead to a profound existential transformation, characterized initially by alienation and disconnection from the world, but potentially giving way to a rediscovery of resonant lifeworld. The project seeks to understand the transformative experiences of disability and how it fundamentally alters one's embodied and mental experience, leading to an existential transformation of selfhood. This approach seeks to restore the lost resonance in the lifeworld of a person with a disability. The resonant relationship is not limited to interactions with other people, but extends to objects, artifacts, and material affordances as such. In order to understand various strategies that bring a disabled individual back into a resonant relationship to the lifeworld, we will draw our research focus on the concrete case study of blind football. The project suggests that rediscovery of resonant relationship can be better understood by drawing on phenomenological theorem of lifeworld, which is overlooked in the field of Disability Studies.
Lasha Matiashvili
Vita
Lasha Matiashvili is the faculty member in the Social and Political Sciences at Tbilisi State University. He obtained his PhD in philosophy from Tbilisi State University in 2019. He used to be the visiting researcher at the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities and Husserl Archives at the University of Cologne in 2021. In 2022, he was also a visiting fellow at the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen. Recently, he has begun exploring the pre-reflective embodied experience in disability sports through the conceptual and methodological lenses of phenomenology.
Research Areas
Phenomenology
Social Ontology
Collective Intentionality
Philosophy of Emotions
Social Philosophy
Disability Studies
Intellectual History
Publications (Selection)
Matiashvili, L. (2023): I Through Thou, and We Through I: Dietrich Von Hildebrand and Karol Wojtyla on the Personal Foundation of Community. Metaphilosophy, Volume 54, Issue 4. https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.1264
Matiashvili, L. (2022): Collective Affective Intentionality and Phenomenology of Togetherness, Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Press Vol. XIV, No. 2, pp. 330-351.
Matiashvili, L. (2021): Andrey Platonov and Biopolitics of Failed Communism. London Academic Publishing, Brolly. Journal of Social Sciences. Vol. 4. No 1. pp. 7-28.
Matiashvili, L. (2020): In the Beginning was Violence: Notes toward an Early Soviet Governmentality. London Academic Publishing, Brolly. Journal of Social Sciences. Vol. 3. No 3. pp. 97-119.
Matiashvili, L. (2020): The Deconstructive and Archeological Paradigms of Voice. Neoplatonism: The Doctrine and its Reception, Ilia State University Press. pp. 179-211. (In Georgian)
Matiashvili, L. (2016): Non-Apophantic Logos as Modal Ontology. European Scientific Journal. December issue, pp. 259-267.
