American Dolorologies : Pain, Sentimentalism, Biopolitics /

American Dolorologies : Pain, Sentimentalism, Biopolitics /

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Offers a critical history of the role of pain, suffering, and compassion in democratic culture. <br/><br/> American Dolorologies presents a theoretically sophisticated intervention into contemporary equations of subjectivity with trauma. Simon Strick argues against a universalism of pain...

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Main Author: Strick, Simon, 1974-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Suffering > Social aspects.
Sentimentalism.
Pain > Social aspects.
Civilization.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Sentimentalisme.
Souffrance > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Douleur > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Suffering > Social aspects > United States.
Pain > Social aspects > United States.
United States.
États-Unis > Civilisation.
United States > Civilization.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • What is dolorology?
  • Sublime pain and the subject of sentimentalism
  • Anesthesia, birthpain and civilization
  • Picturing racial pain
  • Late modern pain.

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