The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World by Elaine Scarry

The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World



The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World ebook




The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World Elaine Scarry ebook
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Page: 393
ISBN: 0195036018, 9780195036015
Format: pdf


In 1985, Elaine Scarry published a book entitled The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World in which Scarry discusses the structure, nature, and use of torture to create terrorism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Where I position myself on the continuum of painful body as subject and object frames the way I am able to navigate social- and self- relations (that is, inter- and intra-subjectivity). Scarry, Elaine 1987: The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. Scarry, The body in pain: The making and unmaking of the world (Oxford University Press, 1985). The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. As I oscillate wildly between these positions, fully aware of the limitations of dualisms like . This review is from: The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (Paperback). Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985), p. The human body is also the starting point of politics and power, a point brilliantly established in Elaine Scarry's 1985 The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. Oxford University Press: Oxford.