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The Body in Pain The Making and Unmaking of the World

Paperback • 1985 • English • 1. edition

The Body in Pain The Making and Unmaking of the World

By Elaine Scarry

1 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

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 vocabularies and cultural forces--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 compile...Show more

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9780195049961

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published year

1985

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

The Body in Pain The Making and Unmaking of the World

Format

Paperback

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