The Culture of Pain (Paper)

1. Auflage 1993
ISBN: 978-0-520-08276-2
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 354 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 494 g

This is a book about the meanings we make out of pain. The greatest surprise I encountered in discussing this topic over the past ten years was the consistency with which I was asked a single unvarying question: Are you writing about physical pain or mental pain? The overwhelming consistency of this response convinces me that modern culture rests upon and underlying belief so strong that it grips us with the force of a founding myth. Call it the Myth of Two Pains. We live in an era when many people believe--as a basic, unexamined foundation of thought--that pain comes divided into separate types: physical and mental. These two types of pain, so the myth goes, are as different as land and sea. You feel physical pain if your arm breaks, and you feel mental pain if your heart breaks. Between these two different events we seem to imagine a gulf so wide and deep that it might as well be filled by a sea that is impossible to navigate.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Morris, David B.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatersoziologie, Theaterpsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Interkulturelle Kommunikation & Interaktion
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction

I
LIVING PAIN: MYSTERY OR PUZZLE?
2
THE MEANINGS OF PAIN
3
AN INVISIBLE EPIDEMIC
4
THE PAIN OF COMEDY
5
HYSTERIA, PAIN, AND GENDER
6
VISIONARY PAIN AND THE POLITICS
OF SUFFERING
7
PAIN IS ALWAYS IN YOUR HEAD
8
THE USES OF PAIN
9
PAINFUL PLEASURES: BEAUTY AND
AFFLICTION
10
SEX, PAIN, AND THE MARQUIS DE SADE 224
11
TRAGIC PAIN
12
THE FUTURE OF PAIN

Notes
Index
CONTENTS

Über Autor(innen)

David B. Morris resigned in 1982 from the University of Iowa, where he was professor of English, to move to Michigan and devote himself to writing. An earlier book, Alexander Pope: The Genius of Sense (1984), won the Gottshalk Price of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.