Pain : a cultural history /
Moscoso, Javier,author.
Halfway between history and philosophy, this book deals with the historical forms that have permitted the understanding of human suffering from the Renaissance to the present. Representation, sympathy, imitation, coherence and narrativity are but a few of the rhetorical recourses that men and women have employed in order to feel our pain.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Representations -- Imitation -- Sympathy -- Correspondence -- Trust -- Narrativity -- Coherence -- Reiteration.
Halfway between history and philosophy, this book deals with the historical forms that have permitted the understanding of human suffering from the Renaissance to the present. Representation, sympathy, imitation, coherence and narrativity are but a few of the rhetorical recourses that men and women have employed in order to feel our pain.
Pain
Suffering
Suffering in art.
Suffering in literature.
Pain
Suffering