Simon Morgan Wortham is Professor of English and Pro Vice Chancellor Dean, Arts and Social Sciences, Kingston University.

Simon Morgan Wortham’s Modern Thought in Pain is ambitious in scope, compellingly presented and timely. The book’s daring central premise is that pain not merely an object for thought, but is implicated in the very act of thinking.　 The book forges a new way of understanding how modern ethics, psychoanalysis and aesthetics arise and are bound together through the questions posed by pain.

• Acknowledgements; Series Editor’s Preface; Introduction: Modern Thought in Pain; 1. After Pains; 2. Distress I; 3. Distress II; 4. Pain of Debt, or, what we owe to retroactivity; 5. Survival of Cruelty; 6. Grief-Substitutes, or, why Melanie Klein is so funny; Index

Simon Morgan Wortham is Professor of English and Pro Vice Chancellor Dean, Arts and Social Sciences, Kingston University.

Simon Morgan Wortham’s Modern Thought in Pain is ambitious in scope, compellingly presented and timely. The book’s daring central premise is that pain not merely an object for thought, but is implicated in the very act of thinking.　 The book forges a new way of understanding how modern ethics, psychoanalysis and aesthetics arise and are bound together through the questions posed by pain.

• Acknowledgements; Series Editor’s Preface; Introduction: Modern Thought in Pain; 1. After Pains; 2. Distress I; 3. Distress II; 4. Pain of Debt, or, what we owe to retroactivity; 5. Survival of Cruelty; 6. Grief-Substitutes, or, why Melanie Klein is so funny; Index

Simon Morgan Wortham is Professor of English and Pro Vice Chancellor Dean, Arts and Social Sciences, Kingston University.

Simon Morgan Wortham’s Modern Thought in Pain is ambitious in scope, compellingly presented and timely. The book’s daring central premise is that pain not merely an object for thought, but is implicated in the very act of thinking.　 The book forges a new way of understanding how modern ethics, psychoanalysis and aesthetics arise and are bound together through the questions posed by pain.

• Acknowledgements; Series Editor’s Preface; Introduction: Modern Thought in Pain; 1. After Pains; 2. Distress I; 3. Distress II; 4. Pain of Debt, or, what we owe to retroactivity; 5. Survival of Cruelty; 6. Grief-Substitutes, or, why Melanie Klein is so funny; Index