Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences {Volume 125, Number 4, Fall1996}

by Stanley Cavell, Veena Das, Paul Farmer

Winter 1996 issue of Daedalus, the quarterly journal of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A collection of essays headlined "Social Suffering" with articles on the cultural appropriation of images of suffering, the Holocaust, the construction of pain, political widowhood in South Africa, public use of personal grief in China, Maoism as a source of social suffering in China, Nazi medicine, displaced suffering, the origins of traumatic memory, and structural violence. 284 pages.

366 pages, Paperback

About the author

Stanley Cavell was an American philosopher. He was the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University. He worked in the fields of ethics, aesthetics, and ordinary language philosophy. As an interpreter, he produced influential works on Wittgenstein, Austin, Emerson, Thoreau, and Heidegger. His work is characterized by its conversational tone and frequent literary references.