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American Dolorologies : Pain, Sentimentalism, Biopolitics /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Strick, Simon, 1974-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What is dolorology?
  • Sublime pain and the subject of sentimentalism
  • Anesthesia, birthpain and civilization
  • Picturing racial pain
  • Late modern pain.