Pain as Yardstick
Jean Améry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6155221 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ilit Ferber (0000-0002-2893-6236, Tel Aviv University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 3-16 |
| Publication date | 2017-02-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2155-1162 • E-ISSN: 2155-1162 |
| Publisher | University Library System, University of Pittsburgh (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5195/jffp.2016.784 |
| OpenAlex | W2590261688 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 2 |
One of the best known and most widely accepted premises regarding the experience of pain and suffering is its singular, private nature. Pain’s violence isolates us from everything else, embedding us completely within our own suffering so that there is nothing else but pain: no world or objects, no relationship with other people, no past or anticipation of the future. An utter withdrawal. But pain’s isolating force is dual: it affects not only those who suffer, but also those who are not in pain. Thus, it is precisely in pain – the exemplary state in which we need others with us to offer their help and sympathy – that we find ourselves in solitude; and it is precisely in the state of pain that we leave others to suffer alone
Anticipation (artificial intelligence · Epistemology · Nothing · Pain and suffering · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Solitude · State (computer science · Sympathy · Yardstick · Computer Science · Law · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,56 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2023 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |