The Body in Pain

Name: The Body in Pain
Author: Elaine Scarry

by Elaine Scarry

Philosophical inquiry into how pain is represented and experienced culturally

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Elaine Scarry

American literary critic and philosopher whose The Body in Pain examined the structure of physical pain and its relationship to language, culture, and power. On Beauty and Being Just argued for the connection between aesthetic and ethical response. She is one of the most original and wide-ranging American humanists.

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