Modern Thought in Pain: Philosophy, Politics and Psychoanalysis

✍ Scribed by Simon Morgan Wortham

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 169
• Series: The Frontiers of Theory
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Through a series of rigorous encounters with key critical figures, this monograph argues that modern thought is, in a double sense, the thought of pain. This book investigates the idea that modern European philosophy after Kant offers less the conceptual equipment to tackle pain in explanatory terms, than an experience of thought that participates in the forms of pain and suffering about which it speaks. Perhaps surprisingly, the question of pain establishes a ground from which to examine key debates in twentieth-century European philosophy, most recently between forms of post-structuralist and ethical thinking imagined to be in crisis and the resurgence of discourses of political emancipation arising from traditions of thought associated with Marxism.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Contents
Series Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Modern Thought in Pain
1. After Pains
2. Distress I
3. Distress II
4. Pain of Debt, or, What We Owe to Retroactivity
5. Survival of Cruelty
6. Grief-substitutes, or, Why Melanie Klein Is So Funny
Index