Perspectives on Human Suffering

<p>1. Introduction: Human Suffering – Jeff Malpas and Norelle Lickiss</p><p>I. Philosophical Considerations<br>2. Suffering and Forgiveness: An Heroic Journey – Andrew Brennan and Norva Lo<br>3. Levinas on Suffering – Andrew Benjamin<br>4. The Other Thing About Suffering – Lucy Tatman<br>5. Suffering, Compassion, and the Possibility of a Humane Politics   –  Jeff Malpas <br>6. ‘Pathei Mathos’: The Cognitive Value of Suffering – Gaetano Chiurazzi <br>7. ‘Giving the World a More Human Face’ – Human Suffering in African Thought and Philosophy –  Thaddeus Metz<br>8. Suffering as Substantive and Subjective: Slavoj Žižek, Hannah Arendt, and the Body’s Pain  – Michael Mack</p><p>II. Humanities Approaches <br>9. The Suffering of Job: He is Every Person and No-one  – Peta Pellach<br>10. The Meaning of Suffering:  A Historian’s View – Nicholas Tarling<br>11. Jewish Responses to Suffering – Paul Turner<br>12. Suffering and Ancient Therapy from Plato to Cicero – Dougal Blyth<br>13. Thinking with Philoctetes –  Edith Hall<br>14. Historicizing Suffering – Wayne Hudson<br>15. The Politics of Suffering – Peter Sutton</p><p>III. Legal, Medical and Therapeutic Contexts<br>16. Some Aspects of Human Suffering and the Criminal Law – Sir Guy Green<br>17. Suffering and the Law: Its Meaning and Definition  – Norchaya Talib<br>18. To Suffer with: The Poetry of Compassion  – Jack Coulehan <br>19. Facing up to Suffering – Norelle Lickiss <br>20. Suffering Seeks a Voice – Frank Brennan<br>21. Dignity, Pain and Suffering – Daryl Pullman<br>22. Suffering and the Sleeplessness of Clinicians – Matthew Hamilton and Grant Gillett <br>23. The Selfsame Well: Human Suffering in Grief and Bereavement  – Elizabeth A Lobb <br>24. Reflections on Compassion, Suffering and Occupational Stress – Mary Vachon <br />25. Insights from Neuroscience and Literature into Pain and Mental Suffering – Ross Mellick </p><p>