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Does suffering have meaning? The leading scholars and practitioners in Meaningless Suffering engage with this haunting human question through the lenses of psychoanalytic, phenomenological and ethical discourse, all the while holding contemporary social concerns in full view. 

The authors seek to find ways of speaking about the lived realities and historical moments that make up our social narratives from the murder of George Floyd to the bird watching incident in Central Park in order to render visible the entangled forms of the effects of embodiment, ideology, race, social practice, and intersectionality. Meaningless Suffering is bookended by powerful pieces by Mari Ruti and Homi K. Bhabha and, in the intervening chapters, the reader traverses the ideas of Augustine, Judith Butler, Fanon, Foucault, Freud, Gendlin, Heidegger, Lacan, Levinas, and Wittgenstein to pass through the realms of classical thought, affect theory, phenomenology, linguistic studies,

Meaningless Suffering

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis
      Imprint Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Published 1/25/2024
      ISBN-13 9781032495354
      978-1032495354
      ISBN-10 1032495359
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      Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Does suffering have meaning? The leading scholars and practitioners in Meaningless Suffering engage with this haunting human question through the lenses of psychoanalytic, phenomenological and ethical discourse, all the while holding contemporary social concerns in full view. 

      The authors seek to find ways of speaking about the lived realities and historical moments that make up our social narratives from the murder of George Floyd to the bird watching incident in Central Park in order to render visible the entangled forms of the effects of embodiment, ideology, race, social practice, and intersectionality. Meaningless Suffering is bookended by powerful pieces by Mari Ruti and Homi K. Bhabha and, in the intervening chapters, the reader traverses the ideas of Augustine, Judith Butler, Fanon, Foucault, Freud, Gendlin, Heidegger, Lacan, Levinas, and Wittgenstein to pass through the realms of classical thought, affect theory, phenomenology, linguistic studies,

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