TY - BOOK AU - Morgan Wortham,Simon TI - Modern Thought in Pain: Philosophy, Politics, Psychoanalysis T2 - The Frontiers of Theory : FRTH SN - 9780748692415 AV - B804 .W66 2015 U1 - 190 23 PY - 2022///] CY - Edinburgh : PB - Edinburgh University Press, KW - Pain KW - Philosophy KW - Philosophy, European KW - 20th century KW - 21st century KW - Literary Studies KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Series Editor’s Preface --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction: Modern Thought in Pain --; Chapter 1 After Pains --; Chapter 2 Distress I --; Chapter 3 Distress II --; Chapter 4 Pain of Debt, or, What We Owe to Retroactivity --; Chapter 5 Survival of Cruelty --; Chapter 6 Grief-substitutes, or, Why Melanie Klein Is So Funny --; Index; restricted access N2 - Analyses how modern conceptions of politics, ethics, and critical thought may be re-evaluated through the question of painGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748692415','ISBN:97807486924722','ISBN:9780748692439']);Through a series of rigorous encounters with key critical figures, this monograph argues that modern thought is, in a double sense, the thought of pain. This book investigates the idea that modern European philosophy after Kant offers less the conceptual equipment to tackle pain in explanatory terms, than an experience of thought that participates in the forms of pain and suffering about which it speaks. Perhaps surprisingly, the question of pain establishes a ground from which to examine key debates in twentieth-century European philosophy, most recently between forms of post-structuralist and ethical thinking imagined to be in crisis and the resurgence of discourses of political emancipation arising from traditions of thought associated with Marxism. Key features:Offers a systematic account of the modern European tradition’s relationship to the question of pain and sufferingSuggests new readings of ‘ethics’ and ‘evil’Evaluates the politics of contemporary critical theorySets new agendas for reading post-Kantian philosophy" UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748692422?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748692422 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780748692422/original ER -