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"Extraordinary:
large-spirite~
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A
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book."
Susan Sontag
THE BODY IN PAIN
The Making
and
Unmaking of the World
ELAINE SCARRY
A ground-hreaking meditation on
pain and its relation to IangU3ge and
m:ativitv,
The Bodv in Pain
analvscs
physical "suitcring "in mUllerous
~Ut:
tCrent contexts and is hased on
massive original research in sources
ranging !Tom court
transcript~
to
Amncstv Intemational doo.Ullents.
~One
ofme most signiticaJ1t txx)ks
in laJlguage, philosophy aJllllitera–
Nre ofme coming
years.~
- Emory Elliott,
PrinCL1:0n Universitv
~I
know of no txx)k like
The Bodv in
Pain.
(It)
is scminal dlinking, aJid
ProtCssor ScarTv writcs widl a won–
lkrtltl comhinaoon ofconcepnlal
rigor aJld poetic
t()rce.~
- Terrence
Des
Pres.,
Colgate University
~
An aDs<
)Iute~'
astonishing achieve–
ment .... I helieve it wiU dlaJlge livcs,
not hy persuasion, hut hy widening
dle scope ofconsciousness.
~
- Allen Grossman,
BraJllkis Univcrsitv
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