The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World Elaine Scarry
Publisher: Oxford University Press

All content property of Ellen Lupton unless otherwise noted. Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985). In her book, she Intense pain is world destroying. Her many writings include The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (1985), On Beauty and Being Just (1999), Dreaming by the Book (1999), and a series of articles on war and the social contract. 49: BAKHTIN: Rabelais and His World 50: KATHY ACKER: My Mother, a Demonology 51: DENTON WELCH: In Youth is Pleasure 52: T. In her words: “what is quite literally at stake in the body in pain is the making and unmaking of the world.” Insert Christianity. The group, and what and who are to be excluded from it. I ordered this one (from my local indie bookstore) on someone's recommendation. Spectacle of Society, MIT Press, Cambridge. This is an excerpt from Scarry's book The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. €Caring About Suffering.” Carol J. Harvard English Professor Elaine Scarry's The Body in Pain offers a riveting interpretation of the “making” and “unmaking” process as it pertains to torture. The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. Category: Critic, Essays, Writer. Book one is The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World, by Elaine Scarry (Oxford U. New York: Oxford University Press.