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A Subaltern Pain: The Problem of Violence in Philosophy’s Pain Discourse

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Harfouch J.
Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
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2019
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vol. 3
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issue 3(9)
127-144
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The scientific and philosophical approach to pain must be supplemented by a hermeneutics studying how racism has complicated the communication of pain. Such an investigation reveals that not only are non-white people seen as credibly speaking their pain, but also pain “science” is one of the ways races have historically been constructed. I illustrate this through a study of Frantz Fanon’s clinical writings, along with eighteenth- and nineteenth-century slave-owners’ medical manuals and related documents. I suggest that, with this history, what philosophers understand as the problem of pain is best framed as the problem of colonial violence.
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