Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Devil. --- Inquisition. --- Superstition. --- Torture. --- Witchcraft.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Torture victims --- Executions and executioners --- Victimes de torture --- Bourreaux --- Psychological aspects --- Aspect psychologique --- Torture. --- Torture --- Psychological aspects. --- Torture - Psychological aspects. --- la torture --- influencer --- aider les survivants --- les mécanismes psychologiques --- des bourreaux

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Exiles - Mental health --- Political refugees - Latin America - Mental health --- Torture - Psychological aspects --- Exiles --- Political refugees --- Torture

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

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 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 physical pain enormously difficult to describe in words--confronted with it, Virginia Woolf once noted, "language runs dry"--it also actively destroys language, reducing sufferers in the most extreme instances to an inarticulate state of cries and moans. Scarry analyzes the political ramifications of deliberately inflicted pain, specifically in the cases of torture and warfare, and shows how to be fictive. From these actions of "unmaking" Scarry turns finally to the actions of "making"--the examples of artistic and cultural creation that work against pain and the debased uses that are made of it. 

Challenging and inventive, The Body in Pain is landmark work that promises to spark widespread debate.

War --- Torture --- Guerre --- Pain. --- War. --- Body, Human --- -Body in literature --- Religious aspects --- Pain --- Armed conflict (War) --- Conflict, Armed (War) --- Fighting --- Hostilities --- Wars --- International relations --- Military art and science --- Peace --- Cruelty --- Punishment --- Extraordinary rendition --- Aches --- Emotions --- Pleasure --- Senses and sensation --- Symptoms --- Analgesia --- Suffering --- Philosophical anthropology --- Semiotics --- pijn --- filosofie --- literatuur --- psychologie --- lichamelijkheid --- politiek --- oorlog --- kunsttheorie --- 130.2 --- cultuurfilosofie --- geweld --- sociologie --- Body, Human - - Religious aspects --- Body in literature