Description: The Phenomenology of Pain is the first book-length investigation of its topic to appear in English. Groundbreaking, systematic, and illuminating, it opens a dialogue between phenomenology and the sciences to argue that science alone cannot clarify the nature of pain experience without incorporating a phenomenological approach.
Review Quotes: "[A] radical and unitary attempt, newly thought through, at a methodical clarification of this crucial experience. The author's expositions achieve a high scientific standard and display an admirable familiarity with the enormous literature on the topic, yet without ever losing sight of the phenomenon itself, and he makes himself intelligible to readers who are not specialists in phenomenology. This is certainly not a minor merit of the book.... Any future treatment of pain in a phenomenological or philosophical perspective will accordingly have to pay very serious attention to this book."--Agustín Serrano de Haro, Husserl Studies