The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World - Couverture rigide

Scarry, Elaine

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0195036018 ISBN 13 : 9780195036015

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1985

Synopsis

This book has hardback covers. Ex-library, With usual stamps and markings, In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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. Scarry goes on to analyse the political ramifications of deliberately inflicted pain, specifically in the cases of warfare and torture, and she demonstrates how political regimes use the power of physical pain to attack and break down the sufferer's sense of self. Finally she turns to examples of artistic and cultural activity; actions achieved in the face of pain and difficulty.

Revue de presse :

'First published in 1985, the book is not easy reading, but it certainly is fascinating.' Star

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0195036018
• ISBN 13: 9780195036015
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 392