The Phenomenology of Pain Contributor(s): Geniusas, Saulius (Author) |
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ISBN: 0821424033 ISBN-13: 9780821424032 Publisher: Ohio University Press
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: August 2022 Click for more in this series: Continental Thought |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Phenomenology - Social Science | Disease & Health Issues - Psychology |
Dewey: 128.4 |
LCCN: 2019051766 |
Series: Continental Thought |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" L (0.95 lbs) 264 pages |
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Publisher Description: The Phenomenology of Pain is the first book-length investigation of its topic to appear in English. Groundbreaking, systematic, and illuminating, it opens a dialogue between phenomenology and such disciplines as cognitive science and cultural anthropology to argue that science alone cannot clarify the nature of pain experience without incorporating a phenomenological approach. Building on this premise, Saulius Geniusas develops a novel conception of pain grounded in phenomenological principles: pain is an aversive bodily feeling with a distinct experiential quality, which can only be given in original first-hand experience, either as a feeling-sensation or as an emotion. Geniusas crystallizes the fundamental methodological principles that underlie phenomenological research. On the basis of those principles, he offers a phenomenological clarification of the fundamental structures of pain experience and contests the common conflation of phenomenology with introspectionism. Geniusas analyzes numerous pain dissociation syndromes, brings into focus the de-personalizing and re-personalizing nature of chronic pain experience, and demonstrates what role somatization and psychologization play in pain experience. In the process, he advances Husserlian phenomenology in a direction that is not explicitly worked out in Husserl's own writings. |
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