10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BENUMBMENT»
Discover the use of
benumbment in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
benumbment and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Labeling: Pedagogy and Politics
... estranging me from the thing that makes me who I am, the thing that enables
me to think my own thoughts. Fiumara describes a strategy used to avoid such a
state of estrangement as benumbment. She suggests that the benumbed person
...
Glenn Hudak, Paul and Kiln, 2014
2
The Other Side of Language: A Philosophy of Listening
On the contrary, one might even hurry towards blindness whenever one feels too
close to benumbment. By an inexplicably powerful 'necessity' that neither tries to
justify itself nor render itself plausible, the passion for benumbment is shown to ...
Gemma Corradi Fiumara, 2013
3
Keeping God's Silence: Towards a Theological Ethics of ...
Fiumara locates the suppression of listening, in a discursive environment
oriented toward power, in her discussion of the “problem of benumbment.”
Benumbment is the condition of defensiveness produced by exposure to warring
discourses.
4
Education in an Age of Nihilism: Education and Moral Standards
Much of Corradi Fiumara's account of benumbment is concerned with specifically
the kind of paralysis that has concerned philosophers such as Wittgenstein. But it
is clear that this is also symptomatic of the contemporary world more generally.
Nigel Blake, Paul Smeyers, Richard Smith, 2012
5
The Beast and the Sovereign
You can see clearly that this link between the inability to die and benumbment
depends on this decisive fact, recalled throughout the seminar, and again just
before this passage, namely that benumbment inhibits the possibility of relating to
...
6
Psychoanalysis and Creativity in Everyday Life: Ordinary Genius
follows the benumbment of an addicted mind. As the most thorough form of
destruction, death may come to be desired for oneself or others. The horror
attending to the whole issue may, moreover, cause a great deal of repression,
forcing us to ...
Gemma Corradi Fiumara, 2013
7
Heidegger and the Question of National Socialism: Disclosure ...
If benumbment can be determined as a fallen, or inauthentic, way of absorption in
the work-world, then it must be possible to evaluate the various kinds of work-
worlds. The benumbment of this way of absorption implies that things are not ...
8
London Medical Gazette: Or, Journal of Practical Medicine
The pain followea especially the course of the nerves, but was diffused so as to
render the slightest pressure upon any point of the surface intolerable." " There
has been no delusion, or benumbment of sensation, such as pressure occasions;
...
9
The Mind's Affective Life: A Psychoanalytic and ...
179. A comparable argument is developed in G. Corradi Fiumara, The Other Side
of Language: A Philosophy of Listening. See paragraphs entitled 'Toward an
awareness of benumbment' and 'Toward a description of benumbment', pp. 82–
90 ...
Gemma Fiumara Corradi, 2014
10
The Mind's Affective Life: A Psychoanalytic and ...
38. A comparable argument is developed in G. Corradi Fiumara, The Other Side
of Language: A Philosophy of Listening. See paragraphs entitled 'Toward an
awareness of benumbment' and 'Toward a description of benumbment', pp. 82-
90.
Gemma Corradi Fiumara, 2001
