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The Thinking University is published as the first volume in Springer's Debating Higher Education:... more The Thinking University is published as the first volume in Springer's Debating Higher Education: Philosophical perspectives series. With this collection of essays, Barnett and Bengtsen make a valuable contribution to the development of a sustained philosophical approach to the study of higher education. Bringing together a group of international scholars to tackle the question of what it means for the university to be 'a thinking institution', this volume cuts to the defining work and character of the university (p. 1). As public debates and discourses on the value and purpose of higher education are increasingly dominated by narrow political and economic logics, this collection sets out to broaden our understandings of the university as a place for thought and to create more meaningful connections between the academy and the wider world.

Phenomenology, Biomedicine and the Meaning of Health

'Perfect Health' and Everyday Bodily Failure: Merleau-Ponty and Beckett

"Between the Normal and the Pathological: Merleau-Ponty, Beckett and Embodied Experience"

"Young, Merleau-Ponty and the Phenomenology of Bodily Movement"

"Merleau-Ponty and Gender"

"Merleau-Ponty and Bodily Difference

"Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology and Transdisciplinarity"

"Normal and Abnormal Embodiment: Some Reflections on Phenomenology and Hermeneutics"

"Integrity and Hybridity: Body Theory and the Phenomenology of Pregnancy"

"'Split' Bodies: Pregnancy and the Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty"

"Merleau-Ponty and the Phenomenology of Bodily Eros"

"Merleau-Ponty and the Body"

"Explicit Sex: A Search for Gender and Sexuality in Merleau-Ponty's 'Phenomenology of Perception'

"Talking History", Discussion on the life and philosophy of Socrates

"The Engendered Body: Towards a Phenomenology of Feminine Existence"

"Merleau-Ponty, Beckett and the Body: A Phenomenology of Aches and Pains"

"Body Work: A Phenomenology of Bodily Resistance in Action"

Papers by Sheena Hyland

Dimensions of Pain: Humanities and Social Science Perspectives (Routledge), 2013

What I understand best, which is not saying much, are my pains. (Beckett 1974: 20) The task of di... more What I understand best, which is not saying much, are my pains. (Beckett 1974: 20) The task of diminishing pain is at the centre of much biomedical research and healthcare practice. Physical pain is conventionally understood as an unpleasant sensation resulting from illness, injury, or other harmful physical contact. In most contexts, it is regarded as a problem to be overcome or managed through various curative and palliative methods. In recent decades, some of the most interesting and important phenomenological work has focused on the devastating impact of extreme pain on subjectivity. Although it is rarely examined outside of illness or injury, pain is an important feature of everyday bodily experience. In mild forms, it is near ubiquitous. In this essay, I explore the nature of pain in the context of ordinary, nonpathological bodily stresses and strainsexperiences that are commonly referred to as "aches and pains". By looking at the role of pain in what might be termed world-formation, I explore the experience of mild corporeal pain as a positive force that is crucial to the way the body experiences the world.

The Philosophical Quarterly, 2010