Homo Patiens: Suffering as a Guidance for Social Change

Homo Patiens: Suffering as a Guidance for Social Change by CORNELIA STEFAN


ISBN
9788869773723
Published
Binding
Paperback
Dimensions
140 x 210mm

The book places suffering at the center of its socio-critical considerations, replacing the famous alienation motif of the Frankfurt School. It begins by critiquing the concept of alienation and its long tradition in social and political philosophy, especially in Critical Theory. An orientation towards concrete experiences of suffering then leads to comments on the current and concrete socio-cultural limits of human formability. Through the elaboration of different aspects of suffering, a multilayered focus is provided, which aims to highlight the transcendental and productive sides of suffering. Suffering is thus read as a symptom that refers to something hidden and reveals a particular truth which can provide guidance for personal and social change. AUTHOR: Cornelia Stefan has studied Philosophy at the Alpen-Adria University of Klagenfurt. After doing her master she received a doctoral fellowship in Medical Humanities at the University of Insubria Varese/Como (IT) which she completed with a PhD. Since 2016 she is a member of the editorial board of the scientific journal "Europea"and author of several peer-reviewed articles. From 2019 to 2021 she was a Postdoc at the University Salzburg and currently she is Senior Scientist at the Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt.
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