Contours of the Flesh : The Semiotics of Pain
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1845539613
ISBN-13
9781845539610
Publisher
Equinox Publishing Ltd
Imprint
Equinox Publishing Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 6th, 2021
Print length
200 Pages
Weight
316 grams
Dimensions
15.40 x 23.30 x 1.60 cms
Product Classification:
linguisticsSociety & culture: general
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This book works to make apparent the rhetorical play of pain demonstrating its social and political imperatives.
In the Eurowest pain is discursively framed as something that elides discourse and therefore is outside language. In this framing, pain, as outside language, is given asocial and ahistorical status understood to be beyond human construction. Indeed, played out in systems of belief and practice, pain acts as a medium for reciprocal relations with the metaphysical other since it too is understood as originating and sharing a part in the ''authentic'' or ''real'' from which the metaphysical, and therefore truth, is understood to emerge. Understood as part of this domain, pain is linked to truth and therefore understood to be a means to truth; hence the use of torture to secure the truth. With this kind of discursive framing, this book works to make apparent the rhetorical play of pain demonstrating its social and political imperatives.
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