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<br> Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, <em>The Body in Pain</em> 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. <p>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.</p> <p>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 <em>destroys</em> language, reducing sufferers in the most extreme instances to an inarticulate state of cries and moans. Scarry analyzes the polit

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Author

Elaine Scarry

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

1985

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195049961

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Psychology, Social Science, Fiction

Rating

4.15 / 5 (973 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13