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The Meanings of Suffering
Author(s) -
VAN HOOFT STAN
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.2307/3528226
Subject(s) - postmodernism , psychology , psychoanalysis , aesthetics , epistemology , sociology , social psychology , philosophy
Western thinkers have usually falsified our experience of suffering in trying to make sense of it. In a postmodern age, their accounts seem implausible. We need a way of making sense of suffering while admitting its horror.
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