The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World [Audiobook] download free by Elaine Scarry
- Listen audiobook: The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
- Author: Elaine Scarry
- Release date: 1988/4/27
- Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780195049961
- Rating: 9.8 of 10
- Votes: 839
- Review by: Wiley Cody
- Review rating: 9.05 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/8
- Duration: 4H49M8S in 256 kbps (79.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-06
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: ATRAC, AIFF, WAV, WMA, AC3, FLAC, MP3, MPEG4 (compression 7Z, BZ, ZIP, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 396
- Includes a PDF summary of 40 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 31M10S (8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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 factof 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Philosophy Of Mind, Philosophy: Metaphysics & Ontology, International Relations, Medicine, Literary Theory, Western Philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, C 500 To C 1600
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 15.83 USD
- Dimensions: 135x203x19mm
- Weight: 298g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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