In the Eyes of God: A Study on the Culture of Suffering

by Fernando Escalante Gonzalbo

"Every culture needs to appropriate the universal truth of human suffering," says Fernando Escalante, ". . . to give its own meaning to this suffering, so that human existence is bearable." Originally published in Spanish as La mirada de Dios: Estudios sobre la cultura del sufrimiento, this book is a remarkable study of the evolution of the culture of suffering and the different elements that constitute it, beginning with a reading of Rousseau...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292714335
• ISBN13: 9780292714335
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"