ISBN:
9789400727953
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XVI, 365p, digital)
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. u.d.T. Perspectives on Human Suffering
Keywords:
Philosophy (General)
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Medicine
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medicine Philosophy
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Quality of Life
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Law
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Quality of Life Research
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Philosophy
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Philosophy (General)
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Medicine
;
medicine Philosophy
;
Quality of Life
;
Law
;
Quality of Life Research
Abstract:
Norelle Lickiss
Abstract:
This volume brings together a range of interdisciplinary perspectives on a topic of central importance, but which has otherwise tended to be approached from within just one or another disciplinary framework. Most of the essays contained here incorporate some degree of interdisciplinarity in their own approach, but the volume nevertheless divides into three main sections: Philosophical considerations; Humanities approaches; Legal, medical, and therapeutic contexts. The volume includes essays by philosophers, medical practitioners and researchers, historians, lawyers, literary, Classical, and Judaic scholars. The essays are united by a common concern with the question of the human character of suffering, and the demands that suffering, and the recognition of suffering, make upon us.
Description / Table of Contents:
Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Chapter-1; Introduction: Human Suffering; Bibliography; Part I; Philosophical Considerations; Chapter-2; Suffering, Compassion, and the Possibility of a Humane Politics; Suffering and Temporality; Suffering and the Singularity of the Person; Suffering and a Humane Politics; Bibliography; Chapter-3; Pathei Mathos: The Political-Cognitive Value of Suffering; Principle of Reality and Principle of Coercion; Nietzsche: Between Forgetfulness and the apologia of Suffering; At the Origin of Suffering: The Pain of Misrecognition
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BibliographyChapter-4; Economies of Suffering: Kierkegaard and Levinas; Introduction; Useful Suffering; Useless Suffering; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter-5; The Other Thing About Suffering; Bibliography; Chapter-6; 'Giving the World a More Human Face'-Human Suffering in African Thought and Philosophy; Introduction: A History of Suffering-First from Without, Then from Within; Sub-Saharan Understandings of Suffering; Sub-Saharan Ethical Approaches Toward Suffering; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter-7; Suffering as Substantive and Subjective: Slavoj Žižek, Hannah Arendt and the Body's Pain
Description / Table of Contents:
Parallax, Fetishism and the Disavowal of Suffering-Can We Do Justice to Suffering Without a Notion of Substance?Suffering, the Changing Demography, and Literature's Transformation of Consciousness; Bibliography; Chapter-8; Suffering and Forgiveness: An Heroic Journey; Arendt and the Unforgivable; Romantic and Magical Forgiveness; A Hero's Journey; How to Forgive; Bibliography; Part II; Humanities Approaches; Chapter-9; The Suffering of Job: He is Every Person and No-One; The Theological Question; The Narrative; Job as the Man We Know; The Dilemma of Job; The Unfathomable Nature of God
Description / Table of Contents:
The Suffering Inherent in CreationDisinterested Piety; God's Justice is Beyond Our Justice; We Are Still Responsible; Bibliography; Chapter-10; The Meaning and the Experience of Suffering: A Historian's Perspective; Bibliography; Chapter-11; Jewish Responses to Suffering; Introduction; Rabbinical Literature; Early Rabbinical Responses to Suffering; Theodicy-One Dilemma? or Two?; Suffering in the Babylonian Talmud; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 12; Suffering and Ancient Therapy: Plato to Cicero; Greco-Roman Conceptions of Suffering; Common Philosophical Assumptions
Description / Table of Contents:
Poetic Alleviation of SufferingPathos and Emotion; Form and Content of the Tusculan Disputations; Conclusion: Therapeutic Method in the Tusculans; Bibliography; Chapter-13; Ancient Greek Responses to Suffering: Thinking with Philoctetes; Bibliography; Chapter-14; Historicizing Suffering; Bibliography; Chapter-15; The Politics of Suffering: Aboriginal Health in Contemporary Australia; The Disease of Politicisation; Disease and Conquest; Crowded House; Brief Interventions; Blaming the Victim?; Bibliography; Part III; Legal, Medical and Therapeutic Contexts; Chapter-16
Description / Table of Contents:
Some Aspects of Human Suffering and the Criminal Law
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-007-2795-3
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