Phenomenology of the Broken Body

Espen Dahl is Professor of Systematic Theology at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. His research interests mainly focus on the intersection between twentieth-century philosophy (phenomenology and ordinary language philosophy) and theology. His publications include Stanley Cavell, Religion, and Continental Philosophy (2014); In Between. The Holy Beyond Modern Dichotomies (2011); The Holy and Phenomenology. Religious Experience after Husserl (SCM Press 2010). Dahl has published numerous articles on theology and philosophy, such as "Job and the Problem of Physical Pain – a Phenomenological Reading," Modern Theology 2016, 32 (1); and "Humility and Generosity: On the Horizontality of the Divine Givenness," Neue Zeitschrift für systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie, 55 (nr 3) (2013).Cassandra Falke is a Professor of English Literature at UiT-The Arctic University of Norway. Her books include Intersections in Christianity and Critical Theory (ed. 2010), Literature by the Working Class: English Autobiography, 1820-1848 (2013), and most recently The Phenomenology of Love and Reading (2016). She has also authored articles about Wordsworth, Byron, Coleridge, liberal arts education, contemporary phenomenology and the portrayal of violence in literature.Thor Eirik Eriksen has a PhD in Philosophy and holds a position as senior adviser at The University Hospital of North Norway and Assistant Professor of Community Medicine, at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. His main research interests are philosophy of science, existential philosophy, phenomenology and the borderland between philosophy and medicine. He has been a contributing author on such articles as: "At the Borders of Medical Reasoning: Aetiological and Ontological Challenges of Medically Unexplained Symptoms" in Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities in Medicine (in press), "The Medically Unexplained Revisited" in Medicine Healthcare and Philosophy (2012), "Patients' 'Thingification', Unexplained Symptoms and Response-ability in the Clinical Context" (2016).

• IntroductionEspen Dahl, Cassandra Falke, Thor Eirik EriksenSection I: Vulnerable Bodies1. Weakness and Passivity: Phenomenology of the Body after PaulEspen Dahl2. The Vulnerable Body – Merleau-Ponty and PsychoanalysisStåle Finke3. Bodily Pain and the Breakdown of Language in Algerian Testimony and LiteratureAlexandra Megearu4. Framing Embodiment in Violent NarrativesCassandra FalkeSection II: Suffering Bodies5. Only Vulnerable Creatures Suffer: On Suffering, Embodiment and Existential HealthOla Sigurdson6. The Body Beyond Scientific Certainty – Brokenness, Uncanniness, AffectednessThor Eirik Eriksen7. No Way Out: A Phenomenology of PainChristian Grüny8. The Phenomenology of FatigueKatherine MorrisSection III: Recovery and Life´s Margins9. Suffering’s Double Disclosure and the Structure of Normality in ExperienceJames McGuirk10. Recovery as Re-attunement: Repairing the Body-World RelationshipDrew Leder11. Notes from a Heart AttackKevin Aho12. Broken PregnanciesTalia Welsh13. Dying Bodies and Dead Bodies: A Phenomenological Analysis of Dementia, Coma and Brain DeathFredrik Svenaeus