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Modern Thought in Pain: Philosophy, Politics, Psychoanalysis(The Frontiers of Theory)

Modern Thought in Pain: Philosophy, Politics, Psychoanalysis(The Frontiers of Theory)


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Analyses how modern conceptions of politics, ethics, and critical thought may be re-evaluated through the question of pain.
Through a series of rigorous encounters with key critical figures, this monograph argues that modern thought is, in a double sense, the thought of pain. The book investigates the idea that modern European philosophy after Kant offers less the conceptual equipment to tackle pain in explanatory terms, than an experience of thought that participates in the forms of pain and suffering about which it speaks. Perhaps surprisingly, the question of pain establishes a ground from which to examine key debates in twentieth-century European philosophy, most recently between forms of post-structuralist and ethical thinking imagined to be in crisis and the resurgence of discourses of political emancipation arising from traditions of thought associated with Marxism.
Key features:Offers a systematic account of the modern European tradition's relationship to the question of pain and sufferingSuggests new readings of 'ethics' and 'evil'Evaluates the politics of contemporary critical theorySets new agendas for reading post-Kantian philosophy



Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements; Series Editor’s Preface; Introduction: Modern Thought in Pain; 1. After Pains; 2. Distress I; 3. Distress II; 4. Pain of Debt, or, what we owe to retroactivity; 5. Survival of Cruelty; 6. Grief-Substitutes, or, why Melanie Klein is so funny; Index

About the Author :
Simon Morgan Wortham is Professor of English and Pro Vice Chancellor Dean, Arts and Social Sciences, Kingston University.

Review :
Simon Morgan Wortham’s Modern Thought in Pain is ambitious in scope, compellingly presented and timely. The book’s daring central premise is that pain not merely an object for thought, but is implicated in the very act of thinking.  The book forges a new way of understanding how modern ethics, psychoanalysis and aesthetics arise and are bound together through the questions posed by pain.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780748692415
  • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 168
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Philosophy, Politics, Psychoanalysis
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 074869241X
  • Publisher Date: 04 Nov 2014
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Series Title: The Frontiers of Theory
  • Weight: 401 gr


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