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Mes mille et une nuits: la maladie comme drame et comme comédie

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Dans cet essai très personnel, Ruwen Ogien suit et questionne avec humour et perspicacité le parcours du malade, les images de la maladie, les métaphores pour la dire, pour l’oublier ou pour en faire autre chose qu’elle n’est. Ne dit-on pas souvent qu'elle serait un défi à relever, un test pour s'éprouver, une expérience qui, une fois dépassée, pourrait même nous enrichir ? Farouche adversaire d’un tel « dolorisme », Ruwen Ogien ne trouve aucune vertu à la souffrance : à ses yeux, ce qui ne tue pas ne rend pas plus fort, et la résilience n'est pas la panacée.

256 pages, Paperback

Published February 1, 2017

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Ruwen Ogien was a French philosopher.

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287 reviews21 followers
November 17, 2023
Cat de mult reusesti sa impingi povestea mai departe, atata vei trai. O carte stranie, pe care nu am putut-o lasa din mana, in care alterneaza capitolele extrem de personale ale bolii lui cu cele filosofice, politice, sociologice, psihologice sau etice ale analizei ideii de boala in societatea moderna.
Autorul se demarca ferm de miscarea dolorista, care considera ca orice boala are un sens si ca sensul ei este sa ne faca mai buni (autorul uraste ‘Ce nu te omoara, te face mai puternic’ a lui Nietzsche), mai puternici, mai intelepti. Parca acele capitole
in care vorbeste despre orice altceva decat despre boala lui sunt pauze, momente de respiro si scuze pentru impudicitatea celorlalte capitole. O lectura surprinzatoare.
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February 14, 2019
Although I agree with the author's criticism of dolorism, I found this book messy and the writing a little too scholastic.
Ogien refutes the idea that pain physical or emotional makes us better human beings but I would have liked him to expand his analysis which was mostly limited to his experience.
Is pain treated the same way all over the world, how has it evolved over history, a lot of questions were not explored and that's disappointing.
Lastly, his description of his encounter with Reiki was funny but made me wonder how little he seems to know about Reiki and more generally how much he explored his subject.
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August 7, 2019
Des pistes de réflexion intéressantes, mais aussi un peu décousues. On sent parfois que l'auteur s'aventure dans un terrain qu'il ne connaît pas tout à fait.
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1,276 reviews54 followers
February 19, 2017
Author confronts his own illness and
reveals the 'totalitarianism' of hospitals and medici.
Strongly based on the study of medical sociology by Talcott Parsons.
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