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The Body in pain: the Making and unmaking of the World

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The Body in pain: the Making and unmaking of the World

The Body in pain: the Making and unmaking of the World

Editorial: Oxford

Pàgines: 385

Any: 1999

EAN: 9780195049961

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Sobre el libro The Body in pain: the Making and unmaking of the World de Elaine Scarry publicado por Oxford al 1999:

Original meditation on the vulnerability of the human body and the literay, political, philosophical, medical and religious vocabularies used to describe it. Elaine Scarry bases her analysis on a wide array of sources, including literature and art, medical case histories, documents and torture compiled by Amnesty International, and the writings of such figures as Clausewitz, Churchill, and Kissinger. Contents: 1. The structure of Torture: The conversion of real pain into the fiction of power. 2. The structure of war: The juxtaposition of injured bodies and unanchored issues. 3. Pain and imagining. 4.The structure of believe and its modulation into material making:body and voice in the Judeo-christian scriptures and the writing of Marx. 5.The interior structure of the artifact

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