A Subaltern Pain
The Problem of Violence in Philosophy’s Pain Discourse
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13123754 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Harfouch (0000-0002-8705-8680, University of Alabama in Huntsville, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 127-144 |
| Publication date | 2019-10-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Eidos A Journal for Philosophy of Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2544-302X • E-ISSN: 2544-302X |
| Publisher | University of Warsaw (PUBLISHER • PL) |
| DOI | 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2019.0034 |
| OpenAlex | W2981692330 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
The scientific and philosophical approach to pain must be supplemented by a hermeneutics studying how racism has complicated the communication of pain. Such an investigation reveals that not only are non-white people seen as credibly speaking their pain, but also pain "science" is one of the ways races have historically been constructed. I illustrate this through a study of Frantz Fanon's clinical writings, along with eighteenth-and nineteenth-century slave-owners' medical manuals and related documents. I suggest that, with this history, what philosophers understand as the problem of pain is best framed as the problem of colonial violence
Political science · Sociology · Subaltern · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Psychology
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It is hard work behaving as a credible patient
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |