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The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
Elaine Scarry
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Description for The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
Paperback. Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique , this explores the nature of physical suffering. Num Pages: 400 pages, halftone frontispiece. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 300.
Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, this profoundly original work explores the nature of physical suffering. Elaine Scarry bases her study on a wide range of sources: literature and art, medical case histories, documents on torture compiled by Amnesty International, legal transcripts of personal injury trials, and military and strategic writings by such figures as Clausewitz, Churchill, Liddell Hart, and Henry Kissinger. Scarry begins with the fact of pain's inexpressibility. Not only is physical pain difficult to describe in words, it also actively destroys language, reducing sufferers in the most extreme cases to an inarticulate state of cries and moans. ... Read more
Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, this profoundly original work explores the nature of physical suffering. Elaine Scarry bases her study on a wide range of sources: literature and art, medical case histories, documents on torture compiled by Amnesty International, legal transcripts of personal injury trials, and military and strategic writings by such figures as Clausewitz, Churchill, Liddell Hart, and Henry Kissinger. Scarry begins with the fact of pain's inexpressibility. Not only is physical pain difficult to describe in words, it also actively destroys language, reducing sufferers in the most extreme cases to an inarticulate state of cries and moans. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
Number of pages
396
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Condition
New
Weight
303g
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195049961
SKU
V9780195049961
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Ref
99-29
Reviews for The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
A philosophical and beautifully written book.
Brock Bastian, BBC Focus
First published in 1985, the book is not easy reading, but it certainly is fascinating.
Star
Brock Bastian, BBC Focus
First published in 1985, the book is not easy reading, but it certainly is fascinating.
Star