American Dolorologies : Pain, Sentimentalism, Biopolitics / Simon Strick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strick, Simon, 1974- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : SUNY Press, 2014.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

<i>Offers a critical history of the role of pain, suffering, and compassion in democratic culture.</i><br/><br/><i>American Dolorologies</i> presents a theoretically sophisticated intervention into contemporary equations of subjectivity with trauma. Simon Strick argues against a universalism of pain and instead foregrounds the intimate relations of bodily affect with racial and gender politics. In concise and original readings of medical debates, abolitionist photography, Enlightenment philosophy, and contemporary representations of torture, Strick shows the crucial function that evocations of "bodies in pain" serve in the politicization of differences. This book provides a historical contextualization of contemporary ideas of suffering, sympathy, and compassion, thus establishing an embodied genealogy of the pain that is at the heart of American democratic sentiment.<br/><br/><b>Simon Strick</b> is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin in Germany.

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Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2020: HSS Backlist Books

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 105182

ISBN:

9781438450230

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access