Overview

Painful Conversations emerges from a meeting of practitioners, scholars and artists. The task was to make sense of pain. Problems to communicate pain were discussed, and attempts to explain and understand pain from theological and philosophical perspectives were presented. 'It's not about the pain on my hands, but the pain in my heart,' says a crucified penitent in one of the chapters. A statement exemplifying pain's ambiguous character: being something both physical and psychical, necessary for survival and a means to reach wisdom - and still it hurts so bad. Examples from fake Holocaust biographies, terminal care and medical treatment, mortification in seventeenth-century Italy, voluntary self-sacrifice and self-injury, and the writings of Emerson and Joyce were used to provide a solution to the task, to make sense of pain.

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Author:   Hans T. Sternudd
Publisher:   Inter/Connexions
Imprint:   Inter-Disciplinary Press
ISBN:  

9781848881426

ISBN 10:   1848881428
Pages:   225
Publication Date:   01 January 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Introduction Hans T. Sternudd PART 1 Communicating Pain: From Words to Touch Once Upon a Time There Was a Story: Appeals to Affect in Remembering Pain Nicola Lazenby (Dis)Regarding the Pain of Others: Deirdre Madden's Remembering Light and Stone Zuzanna Sanches Pain in-between Cultures: A Comparison between Eldercare Forms in Israel Keren Mazuz Inhabiting Wounded Bodies: Sensing the Unknown Teresa Casal PART 2 Self-Inducing Pain: Communicating Bodies Rituals of Pain and the Limits of the Biomedical Paradigm: Self-Mortification in the Catholic Philippines Julius Bautista Mortifications of the Body between War and Ritual: The Case of Seventeenth-Century Italy Elena Bonesi Sublime Pain: A Study of Voluntary Pain Acceptance Hadi Fayyaz Bodies in Pain: Frameworks of Meaning in Bodily Self-Harm Actions Lina Cristina Casado Marin PART 3 The Epistemology of Pain Modes of Pain: Reflections on the Self-Injury Experience Hans T. Sternudd Disease, Pain and the Fragmentary World: A Possible Constructive Role of Suffering in a Philosophical and Theological Perspective Andrzej Danczak The Perceptual View of Pain: An Urgent Question in the Philosophy Mind Ana Oliveira Monteiro Where Do We Find Ourselves? The Experience of Pain in Emerson and Joyce Marina Guiomar

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Hans T. Sternudd, PhD, is a Swedish Art Historian working as a senior lecturer and researcher at School of Cultural Sciences , Linnaeus University, in Vaxjo, Sweden. He is presently working on a research project on visual representations of self-injury, a project supported by the Swedish Research Council (2008-2011) and Linnaeus University (2012). In his research he addresses questions about gender, corporality and performativity. His doctoral dissertation addressed the work of the Austrian artist Hermann Nitsch, focusing on the question of the media-specific aspects of performance and action art.

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