Cultural Ontology of the Self in Pain

23.08.2016

Englisch

9788132229933

Springer India

Nein

288

Broschiert

Siby K. George is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India. He has previously been Lecturer of Philosophy at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology, Silchar, Assam. His area of research is twentieth-century Continental Philosophy, and he writes on development, suffering, community, environment, selfhood, agency and the like from a critical-phenomenological perspective, paying special attention to non-western contexts. He is author of Heidegger and Development in the Global South (2015, Springer; series: Contributions to Phenomenology, 82). On the theme of pain and illness, he has published “Wellness in Illness” (Samyukta: A Journal of Women’s Studies XI:2, 2011). His paper “The Affected Subject and the Case of Individuating Pain” is slated to be part of a forthcoming collection of essays on consciousness, subjectivity and otherness.P. G. Jung is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), Mumbai, India. He is currently Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. His publications are largely in the field of philosophy of language, history of ideas, and the philosophy of everydayness. His two manuscripts, “Reading Wittgenstein all over again” and “Conceptualizing corruption through the corruptibility of the self,” are currently being readied for publication.

Ambivalent character of pain, Bentham and the sovereignty of pain, Building radically different cultures of pain, Critique of reductive conceptions of pain, Eros as a central feature of selves and narrations, Existential interpretation of pain, Exorcism and catharsis, Experience of pain in patriarchy, Forced migration and pain, Healing of the self in pain, Narrative construction of selfhood, Narrative, ethics, and pain, Ontological structure of pain, Ontology of the self, Pain and catharsis, Pain and pleasure in human existence, Pain in feminist literature, Pain narratives and influence on selves, Recovery of the lost self in pain, Shame as pain, Therapeutic connotations of aufheben

QDTJ - Philosophie: Metaphysik und Ontologie JHB - Soziologie JBCC - Kulturwissenschaften

235 mm

15.5 cm