Historicizing Suffering

Clement Hudson

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-2795-3

Historicizing Suffering

Clement Hudson

Public and Contextual Theology

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Abstract

According to the standard accout suffering is a universal human experience described as a negative basic feeling or emotion that involves a subjective character of unpleasantness, aversion, harm or threat of harm to body or mind (Spelman 1997; Cassell 1991). The approach to suffering the author argues for accepts that generic accounts of suffering should be developed and that major human performances such as hatred and friendship have recurrent and largely commensurable elements. He urges the reader to be sensitive to the fact that suffering has changed historically and of the need to pay more attention to the social construction of suffering in particluar contexts.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Perspectives on Human Suffering
Editors	Jeff Malpas, Norelle Lickiss
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Springer
Chapter	14
Pages	171-179
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Print)	9789400727953
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2795-3
Publication status	Published - 2012

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Hudson, C. (2012). Historicizing Suffering. In J. Malpas, & N. Lickiss (Eds.), Perspectives on Human Suffering (pp. 171-179). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2795-3

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