Perspectives on Human Suffering [Paperback]

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.

This multidisciplinary volume collates essays by philosophers, medical practitioners, historians, lawyers, and scholars of literature, the classics and Judaism. They explore the character of human suffering and the demands that its recognition impose on us.

1. Introduction: Human Suffering  Jeff Malpas and Norelle Lickiss

I. Philosophical Considerations
2. Suffering and Forgiveness: An Heroic Journey  Andrew Brennan and Norva Lo
3. Levinas on Suffering  Andrew Benjamin
4. The Other Thing About Suffering  Lucy Tatman
5. Suffering, Compassion, and the Possibility of a Humane Politics?? ? Jeff Malpas
6. Pathei Mathos: The Cognitive Value of Suffering  Gaetano Chiurazzi
7. Giving the World a More Human Face  Human Suffering in African Thought and Philosophy ? Thaddeus Metz
8.?Suffering as Substantive and Subjective: Slavoj }i~ek, Hannah Arendt, and the Bodys Pain?  Michael Mack

II. Humanities Approaches?
9.?The Suffering of Job: He is Every Person and No-one?  Peta Pellach
10.?The Meaning of Sufferilӥ