The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World by Elaine Scarry

The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World



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Page: 393
ISBN: 0195036018, 9780195036015
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Effective communication is still possible, but there must be a revision of language in order for this to happen. Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985), p. The body in pain: The making and unmaking of the world. Spectacle of Society, MIT Press, Cambridge. The point that sadism aims at humiliation rather than merely at pain in general has been developed in detail by Elaine Scarry in The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. (Oxford University Press, Oxford: 1985). The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition. Through these, Vetlesen provides a conceptual analysis of how pain changes our normal connections to the world, including to other humans. New York: Oxford University Press. First, in last night's salon in honor of my cancer-stricken friend Alan Paskow, we discussed the introduction to Elaine Scarry's The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, The Body in Pain is a profoundly original study that has already stirred excitement in a wide range of intellectual circles. I remember picking up The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World when it came out and expecting some sophisticated argument. It includes Diana Nemiroff, “Fourteen Meditations of Torture of Women by Nancy Spero”; Luisa Valenzuela, “Symmetries”; and an excerpt from Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. I am reading Elaine Scarry's 1987 book The Body in Pain: The making and unmaking of the world.