The Phenomenology of Pain (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Ohio University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Series in Continental Thought
Release date:	February 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Saulius Geniusas
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Trade binding / Unsewn / adhesive bound / Paper over boards / Laminated cover
Pages:	264
ISBN-13:	978-0-8214-2403-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Illness & addiction: social aspects > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > Phenomenology & Existentialism Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > Phenomenology & Existentialism Promotions
LSN:	0-8214-2403-3
Barcode:	9780821424032

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