Description: Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, The Body in Pain is a profoundly original study that has already stirred excitement in a wide range of intellectual circles. The book is an analysis of physical suffering and its relation to the numerous vacabularies and culturalforces--literary, political, philosophical, medical, religious--that confront it.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 Kissinger, She weaves these into her discussion with an eloquence, humanity, and insight that recall the writings of Hannah Arendt and Jean-Paul Sartre.Scarry begins with the fact of pain's inexpressibility. Not only is p…condition info: Missing dust cover. Has a sturdy binding with some shelf wear. May have light markings on pages.
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EAN: 9780195036015
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Number of Pages: 400 Pages
Publication Name: Body in Pain : the Making and Unmaking of the World
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 1985
Subject: Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology, Linguistics / General
Item Height: 1.2 in
Item Weight: 26.3 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Language Arts & Disciplines, Science
Author: Elaine Scarry
Item Length: 9.5 in
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Hardcover
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