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This book investigates the sources and implications of our encounters with suffering in contemporary politics and culture, exploring the forces that determine how suffering matters. It counters liberalism's distorting domestications of human suffering, which are most acute in... Read Full Overview

Introduction: Suffering's Dead? PART I: SUFFERING LIBERALISM Suffering, Incorporated The Theatre of the Ascetic The Liberal Sensorium PART II: RECUPERATING MATERIALISM From Noisy Spheres to Hidden Abodes The Fetishism of Injuries The Tragic Art of Historical Materialists