Perspectives on human suffering
By: Jeff Malpas, Norelle Lickiss, editors
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Dordrecht; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9789400727946
Subjects: Suffering; Moral and ethical aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Human Suffering  -- Jeff Malpas and Norelle Lickiss -- Part 1.; title: Philosophical considerations --; title: Suffering, Compassion, and the Possibility of a Humane Politics  -- Jeff Malpas; title: Pathei Mathos: The Political-Cognitive Value of Suffering  -- Gaetano Chiurazzi; title: Economies of Suffering: Kierkegaard and Levinas  -- Andrew Benjamin and Samuel Cuff Snow; title: The Other Thing About Suffering  -- Lucy Tatman; title: 'Giving the World a More Human Face'-Human Suffering in African Thought and Philosophy  -- Thaddeus Metz; title: Suffering as Substantive and Subjective: Slavoj Žižek, Hannah Arendt and the Body's Pain  -- Michael Mack; title: Suffering and Forgiveness: An Heroic Journey -- Andrew Brennan and Norva Y. S. Lo.; title: Part 2.; title: Humanities Approaches --; title: The Suffering of Job: He is Every Person and No-One  -- Peta Jones Pellach; title: The Meaning and the Experience of Suffering: A Historian's Perspective  -- Nicholas Tarling; title: Jewish Responses to Suffering  -- Paul Turner; title: Suffering and Ancient Therapy: Plato to Cicero  -- Dougal Blyth; title: Ancient Greek Responses to Suffering: Thinking with Philoctetes  -- Edith Hall; title: Historicizing Suffering  -- Wayne Hudson; title: The Politics of Suffering: Aboriginal Health in Contemporary Australia -- Peter Sutton.; title: Part 3.; title: Legal, medical and therapeutic contexts --; title: Some Aspects of Human Suffering and the Criminal Law  -- Guy Green; title: Suffering: A Perspective From Law  -- Norchaya Talib; title: To Suffer With: The Poetry of Compassion  -- Jack Coulehan; title: On Facing Human Suffering  -- Norelle Lickiss; title: Suffering Seeks a Voice  -- Frank Brennan; title: Technological Efficiency, Human Dignity, and the Meaning of Suffering  -- Daryl Pullman; title: Suffering and the Sleeplessness of Clinicians  -- Matthew Hamilton and Grant Gillett; title: The Selfsame Well: Human Suffering in Grief and Bereavement  -- Elizabeth A. Lobb; title: Reflections on Compassion, Suffering and Occupational Stress  -- Mary L. S. Vachon; title: Mental Suffering and the Brain: Insights from Neurology and Literature -- Ross Mellick.