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The palliative society : pain today / Byung-Chul Han ; translated by Daniel Steuer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Han, Byung-Chul, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Palliativgesellschaft. Schmerz Heute English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Pain--Psychological aspects.
- Pain.
- Suffering--Psychological aspects.
- Suffering.
- Civilization, Modern--Psychological aspects.
- Civilization, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 71 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, [2021]
- Language Note:
- Translated from German.
- Summary:
- "An incisive critique of our modern desire to avoid pain"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Algophobia
- The Compulsion of Happiness
- Survival
- The Meaninglessness of Pain
- The Cunning of Pain
- Pain as Truth
- The Poetics of Pain
- The Dialectic of Pain
- The Ontology of Pain
- The Ethics of Pain
- The Last Man.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Han, Byung-Chul. Palliative society
- ISBN:
- 9781509547234
- 1509547231
- 9781509547241
- 150954724X
- OCLC:
- 1225624305
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