Cultural Ontology of the Self in Pain

Chapter 1: Introduction: Cultural Ontology of the Self in Pain.- PART-I: Ontology of Pain .- Chapter 2: Ontology of Pain in Moral Theories.- Chapter 3: The Familiar Stranger: On the Loss of Self in Intense Bodily Pain.- Chapter 4: Waiting to Speak: A Phenomenological Perspective on our Silence around Dying.- Chapter 5: Pain and Catharsis in Art, Ritual and Therapy.- Chapter 6: Traditional Philosophies and Gandhi's Approach to the Self in Pain.- PART-II: Culture, Politics and Ethics of Pain .- "Hurt" by Daniel Becker.- Chapter 7: The Infinite Faces of Pain: Narrative, Eros, and Ethics.- Chapter 8: Shame, Placebo and World-Taking Cognitivism.- Chapter 9: Self and Suffering in Buddhism and Phenomenology: Existential Pain, Compassion and the Problems of Institutional Healthcare.- Chapter 10: Many Faces of Woman's Pain.- Chapter 11: Pain and Agency: On the Essential Importance of Vulnerability and Transgression.- PART-III: Social Contexts of Pain .- Chapter 12: Dislocations, Marginalisations, Past and Present: Pain-Experiences Two Marginalised Communities.- Chapter 13: AFSPA and the Tortured Bodies: The Politics of Pain in Manipur.- Chapter 14: Medical Mission and the Interpretation of Pain.

Siby K. George is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India. He has previously been Lecturer of Philosophy at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology, Silchar, Assam. His area of research is twentieth-century Continental Philosophy, and he writes on development, suffering, community, environment, selfhood, agency and the like from a critical-phenomenological perspective, paying special attention to non-western contexts. He is author of Heidegger and Development in the Global South (2015, Springer; series: Contributions to Phenomenology, 82). On the theme of pain and illness, he has published "Wellness in Illness" (Samyukta: A Journal of Women's Studies XI:2, 2011). His paper "The Affected Subject and the Case of Individuating Pain" is slated to be part of a forthcoming collection of essays on consciousness, subjectivity and otherness.P. G. Jung is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), Mumbai, India. He is currently Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. His publications are largely in the field of philosophy of language, history of ideas, and the philosophy of everydayness. His two manuscripts, "Reading Wittgenstein all over again" and "Conceptualizing corruption through the corruptibility of the self," are currently being readied for publication.