The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
By Elaine Scarry (NHC Fellow, 1979–80) 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. The book is an analysis of physical suffering and its relation to the numerous vocabularies and cultural forces–literary, political, philosophical, medical, religious–that confront it. … Continued
