Schmidt, Jochen Klage. Überlegungen zur Linderung reflexiven Leidens
2011. X, 222 pages. RPT 58
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Jochen SchmidtKlageÜberlegungen zur Linderung reflexiven Leidens
[Lament. Reflections on the Alleviation of Reflective Suffering.]Published in German. Lament is not a preliminary form of praising God, nor is suffering a noble form of happiness. Lament is lament, and suffering is suffering. Renouncing any rhetoric of an internal alteration of the negative, Jochen Schmidt describes lament as a human practice which due to its expressive potential opens up new possibilities of self-interpretation and can thus alleviate suffering. Against the backdrop of a phenomenological analysis of “reflective” individual suffering, this monograph proposes a theory of lament which draws upon phenomenology, literary aesthetics and systematic theology.
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