Making Sense of Suffering : a Collective Attempt.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (155 pages)
Intro -- Making Sense of Suffering: A Collective Attempt -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: How Can We Make Sense of Suffering? -- Part I Theory -- On Suffering and Its Relation to the Conception of Nihilism in Nietzsche's Thought -- Kierkegaard's View on the Suffering Aspects of Life and the Role of Love in Decreasing the Suffering of Life -- Postmodern Suffering: Contemporary Society and the Postmodern Sublime -- Part II Practice -- Suffering and the 'Acceptability Gap': A Concept of Convergence -- Human Rights Law and the Displaced Human: Silence, Suffering and Neglect -- Religious Conversion and Suffering -- Culturally-Embedded Meaning-Making: An Exploration of How Young, Resilient South African Adults Confront Suffering -- 'Grief is love': Understanding Grief through Self-help Groups Organised by the Family Survivors of Suicide -- 'A Blessing in Disguise': The Meaning of Suffering in the Work of Viktor E. Frankl and Aldous Huxley -- Book of Joe -- Part III Representation -- The Problem of Chivalry: Yvain's Suffering in Chrétien de Troyes' -- 'Numbing people was an art form now': Cancer and Suffering in Pat Barker's Another World and Andrew Miller's Oxygen -- Pain Worth More than a Penny: Performance of Suffering in Omeros and The America Play -- Scarred Language: Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts.