Knowledge and Pain
Pain studies, both in exact sciences and in the humanities, are a fast-shifting field. This volume condenses a spectrum of recent views of pain through the lens of humanistic studies. Methodologically, the volume is an interdisciplinary study of the questions pertaining to the accessibility of pain (physical or emotional) to understanding and of the possible influence of suffering on the enhancement of knowledge in private experience or public sphere.Undeterred by the widespread belief that pain cannot be expressed in language and that it is intransmissible to others, the authors of the essays in the collection show that the replicability of…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Toker, Leona (Hrsg.) / Consonni, Manuela (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-90-420-3582-9
- EAN: 9789042035829
- Produktnummer: 13973853
- Verlag: Brill Academic Pub
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 406 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.4 cm x D3.8 cm 795 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 84
- Gewicht: 795
Über den Autor
Esther Cohen is Professor of Medieval History at the Department of History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has published on popular culture as well as on law and crime in the middle ages. Her most important publications are The Crossroads of Justice: Law and Society in Late Medieval France (1993), Peaceable Domain, Certain Justice: Crime and Society in Fifteenth-Century Paris (1996) and The Modulated Scream: Pain in Late Medieval Culture (2010). She is currently working on demons in the later middle ages. Leona Toker is Professor in the English Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of Nabokov: The Mystery of Literary Structures (1989), Eloquent Reticence: Withholding Information in Fictional Narrative (1993), Return from the Archipelago: Narratives of Gulag Survivors (2000), Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction: Narratives of Cultural Remission (2010), and articles on English, American and Russian literature. She is the editor of Commitment in Reflection: Essays in Literature and Moral Philosophy (1994). She has founded and is editing Partial Answers: A Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas. Manuela Consonni is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Jewish History and Head of the Italian Section in the Department of Romance and Latin American Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of Resistenza or Shoah: The Memory of the Deportation and Extermination in Italy, 1945-1985 (2010, Hebrew). Her articles appeared in Partial Answers, Jewish History, and Quaderni Storici. Her current research project is 'Bracketing Death': Philosophical and Anthropological Analysis of Death and the History of the Shoah. Otniel E. Dror, MD, PhD (History) is Joel Wilbush Chair in Medical Anthropology and Head of the Section for the History of Medicine in the Medical Faculty of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on the history of the study of emotions during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is the author of Blush, Adrenaline, Excitement: Modernity and the Study of Emotions, 1860-1940 (under revision for the University of Chicago Press). His articles have appeared in Isis, Configurations, Science in Context, and Social Research. His new book project is entitle: The Adrenaline Century, 1900-2000.
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