TY - BOOK ID - 5503124 TI - Suffering, politics, power : a genealogy in modern political theory PY - 2002 SN - 9780791451045 0791451046 0791451038 PB - Albany : State University of New York Press, DB - UniCat KW - Suffering. KW - Souffrance UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5503124 AB - "Suffering, Politics, Power argues that human suffering on a global scale constitutes the most urgent and least understood question of contemporary politics and political theory. In the modern age, the experience of suffering is primarily a political problem, constructed out of crucial, conflicting perspectives. The book draws on a genealogy of suffering through the conflicting perspectives of four major political theorists: Martin Luther, Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Friedrich Nietzsche. Although supplying contradictory accounts of the nature of suffering and human response to it, these theorists, when examined together, provide a historical foundation for the political structures of our time and a trajectory for the problematic of suffering which defies all limits. This book works to foster a contemporary political response to suffering, addressing the techniques of its product and representation and the dilemmas of ascertaining causes and responsibilities."--BOOK JACKET. ER -