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.
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What can we do when seeing our closest family members or friends in pain? I see he was suffering, he could not get any rest, he was cursing himself, yelling to the air. What should I do? How can I comfort him? I was the only one who witnessed his suffering ...
评分What can we do when seeing our closest family members or friends in pain? I see he was suffering, he could not get any rest, he was cursing himself, yelling to the air. What should I do? How can I comfort him? I was the only one who witnessed his suffering ...
评分What can we do when seeing our closest family members or friends in pain? I see he was suffering, he could not get any rest, he was cursing himself, yelling to the air. What should I do? How can I comfort him? I was the only one who witnessed his suffering ...
评分What can we do when seeing our closest family members or friends in pain? I see he was suffering, he could not get any rest, he was cursing himself, yelling to the air. What should I do? How can I comfort him? I was the only one who witnessed his suffering ...
评分What can we do when seeing our closest family members or friends in pain? I see he was suffering, he could not get any rest, he was cursing himself, yelling to the air. What should I do? How can I comfort him? I was the only one who witnessed his suffering ...
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Very inspiring reading of the Judeo-Christian scriptures, an extremely structural account of the relation between the making of artefacts and the unmaking of body...
评分疼痛课题用。其实不错，就是有抓不到重点的问题。有机会仔细看
评分a dense book,
评分浏览。在理论上提供一些有意思的切入点。
评分主题有趣，就是废话太多
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