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

Morgan Wortham, Simon

Edinburgh University Press（2014/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 168 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780748692415
• DDC分類 170

Full Description

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.

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