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oapen-20.500.12657-462582023-02-01T09:02:38Z American Dolorologies Strick, Simon History United States Social Science Slavery Technology & Engineering Agriculture bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJK History of the Americas bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBT History: specific events & topics::HBTS Slavery & abolition of slavery bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TV Agriculture & farming Offers a critical history of the role of pain, suffering, and compassion in democratic culture.American Dolorologies presents a theoretically sophisticated intervention into contemporary equations of subjectivity with trauma. Simon Strick argues against a universalism of pain and instead foregrounds the intimate relations of bodily affect with racial and gender politics. In concise and original readings of medical debates, abolitionist photography, Enlightenment philosophy, and contemporary representations of torture, Strick shows the crucial function that evocations of “bodies in pain” serve in the politicization of differences. This book provides a historical contextualization of contemporary ideas of suffering, sympathy, and compassion, thus establishing an embodied genealogy of the pain that is at the heart of American democratic sentiment.Simon Strick is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin in Germany. 2021-01-23T04:30:51Z 2021-01-23T04:30:51Z 2014 book 9781438450230 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46258 eng SUNY Press Open Access application/epub+zip n/a external_content.epub State University of New York Press SUNY Press 10.1353/book.28834 10.1353/book.28834 1e003940-c9f9-4f5d-b1a0-1cfa16a3eae7 9781438450230 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) SUNY Press 240 open access
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Offers a critical history of the role of pain, suffering, and compassion in democratic culture.American Dolorologies presents a theoretically sophisticated intervention into contemporary equations of subjectivity with trauma. Simon Strick argues against a universalism of pain and instead foregrounds the intimate relations of bodily affect with racial and gender politics. In concise and original readings of medical debates, abolitionist photography, Enlightenment philosophy, and contemporary representations of torture, Strick shows the crucial function that evocations of “bodies in pain” serve in the politicization of differences. This book provides a historical contextualization of contemporary ideas of suffering, sympathy, and compassion, thus establishing an embodied genealogy of the pain that is at the heart of American democratic sentiment.Simon Strick is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin in Germany.
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