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Perspectives on Human Suffering

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  • © 2012

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Editors:
  1. Jeff Malpas

    1. , School of Philosophy - Private Bag 41, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia

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  2. Norelle Lickiss

    1. , School of Philosophy - Private Bag 41, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia

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  • Contrributes an interdisciplinary breadth of the essays
  • Is the only edited collection that takes human suffering as its focus
  • Follows on, both in terms of concepts and format, an already successful work
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-1
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  2. Philosophical Considerations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Introduction: Human Suffering

      • Jeff Malpas, Norelle Lickiss
      Pages 1-6

    3. Suffering, Compassion, and the Possibility of a Humane Politics

      • Jeff Malpas
      Pages 9-21

    4. Pathei Mathos: The Political-Cognitive Value of Suffering

      • Gaetano Chiurazzi
      Pages 23-32

    5. Economies of Suffering: Kierkegaard and Levinas

      • Andrew Benjamin, Samuel Cuff Snow
      Pages 33-42

    6. The Other Thing About Suffering

      • Lucy Tatman
      Pages 43-48

    7. ‘Giving the World a More Human Face’—Human Suffering in African Thought and Philosophy

      • Thaddeus Metz
      Pages 49-61

    8. Suffering as Substantive and Subjective: Slavoj Žižek, Hannah Arendt and the Body’s Pain

      • Michael Mack
      Pages 63-77

    9. Suffering and Forgiveness: An Heroic Journey

      • Andrew Brennan, Norva Y. S. Lo
      Pages 79-95

  4. Legal, Medical and Therapeutic Contexts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205
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    2. Some Aspects of Human Suffering and the Criminal Law

      • Guy Green
      Pages 207-211
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This volume brings together a range of interdisciplinary perspectives on a topic of central importance, but which has otherwise tended to be approached from within just one or another disciplinary framework. Most of the essays contained here incorporate some degree of interdisciplinarity in their own approach, but the volume nevertheless divides into three main sections: Philosophical considerations; Humanities approaches; Legal, medical, and therapeutic contexts.

The volume includes essays by philosophers, medical practitioners and researchers, historians, lawyers, literary, Classical, and Judaic scholars. The essays are united by a common concern with the question of the human character of suffering, and the demands that suffering, and the recognition of suffering, make upon us.

Editors and Affiliations

  • , School of Philosophy - Private Bag 41, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia

    Jeff Malpas

  • , School of Philosophy - Private Bag 41, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia

    Norelle Lickiss

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