Editors:
- Contrributes an interdisciplinary breadth of the essays
- Is the only edited collection that takes human suffering as its focus
- Follows on, both in terms of concepts and format, an already successful work
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Philosophical Considerations
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Front Matter
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Humanities Approaches
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Front Matter
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Legal, Medical and Therapeutic Contexts
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Front Matter
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About this book
This volume brings together a range of interdisciplinary perspectives on a topic of central importance, but which has otherwise tended to be approached from within just one or another disciplinary framework. Most of the essays contained here incorporate some degree of interdisciplinarity in their own approach, but the volume nevertheless divides into three main sections: Philosophical considerations; Humanities approaches; Legal, medical, and therapeutic contexts.
The volume includes essays by philosophers, medical practitioners and researchers, historians, lawyers, literary, Classical, and Judaic scholars. The essays are united by a common concern with the question of the human character of suffering, and the demands that suffering, and the recognition of suffering, make upon us.
Keywords
- Hannah Arendt and suffering
- Humane Politics
- Levinas and Suffering
- Philoctetes and suffering
- Suffering and compassion
- Suffering and forgiveness
- Value of suffering
- dignity and suffering
- history and suffering
- human suffering
- neuroscience and suffering
- pain and suffering
- perspectives on suffering
- philosophy of suffering
- politics and suffering
- suffering and judaism
- suffering and law
Editors and Affiliations
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, School of Philosophy - Private Bag 41, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
Jeff Malpas
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, School of Philosophy - Private Bag 41, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
Norelle Lickiss
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Perspectives on Human Suffering
Editors: Jeff Malpas, Norelle Lickiss
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2795-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-2794-6Published: 16 March 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9341-5Published: 16 April 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-2795-3Published: 23 April 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 368
Topics: Philosophy of Medicine, Medicine/Public Health, general, Quality of Life Research, Biomedicine general, Law, general, Psychology, general