American Dolorologies Pain, Sentimentalism, Biopolitics

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...

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Main Author: Strick, Simon (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: State University of New York Press 2014
Series:SUNY Press Open Access
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