A Philosophy of Pain.
Title:
A Philosophy of Pain.
Author:
Vetlesen, Arne.
ISBN:
9781861897008
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (170 pages)
Contents:
A Philosophy of Pain cover -- Imprint page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1: Pain in Extremis: Torture -- 2: Lasting Pain: Illness -- 3: Psychic Pain -- 4: A Critique of Sartre's Existentialist View -- 5: Pain as a Phenomenon -- 6: Anxiety and Depression -- 7: The Unalterable Fundamental Conditions of Existence -- 8: Transportation of Psychic Pain -- 9: The Role of Culture in Dealing with Pain -- 10: Pain and Evil -- 11: When Pain is Imitated and Enacted: Violence in Culture -- 12: Pain as Compulsive Choice in a Multi-option Society -- Conclusion -- references -- bibliography.
Abstract:
"Living involves being exposed to pain every second-not necessarily as an insistent reality, but always as a possibility," writes Arne Vetlesen in A Philosophy of Pain, a thought-provoking look at an inevitable and essential aspect of the human condition.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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