Pain - A Cultural History

Zusatztext 'Javier Moscoso's book is a dazzling example of cultural history. For anyone who ever wondered about the meaning of pain and how those meanings have changed over time this is the book for you.' - Joanna Bourke! Birkbeck College Informationen zum Autor JAVIER MOSCOSO is Research Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the Institute of Philosophy of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). His academic career has been devoted to the cultural history of the human body. He was the curator of the London Science Museum exhibition Pain. Passion. Compassion. Sensibility. Klappentext Halfway between history and philosophy, this book deals with the historical forms that have permitted the understanding of human suffering from the Renaissance to the present. Representation, sympathy, imitation, coherence and narrativity are but a few of the rhetorical recourses that men and women have employed in order to feel our pain. Zusammenfassung Halfway between history and philosophy! this book deals with the historical forms that have permitted the understanding of human suffering from the Renaissance to the present. Representation! sympathy! imitation! coherence and narrativity are but a few of the rhetorical recourses that men and women have employed in order to feel our pain. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Representations Imitation Sympathy Correspondence Trust Narrativity Coherence Reiteration Postscriptum

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Representations Imitation Sympathy Correspondence Trust Narrativity Coherence Reiteration Postscriptum

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'Javier Moscoso's book is a dazzling example of cultural history. For anyone who ever wondered about the meaning of pain and how those meanings have changed over time this is the book for you.'
- Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck College

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• Authors: J Moscoso, J. Moscoso, Javier Moscoso
• Assisted by: Paul House (Translation), Sarah Thomas (Translation)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2012
• EAN: 9781403991188
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-9118-8
• No. of pages: 314
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); B, Cultural History, History, History of Ideas, European History, Social History, Social & cultural history, world history, Intellectual History, World History, Global and Transnational History, History, Modern, Civilization—History, Palgrave History Collection, Modern History, Intellectual life—History, Intellectual Studies, Europe—History, cultural history;history;Renaissance