La douleur: beauté ou laideur

This number focuses on the issue of pain based on the dichotomy of beauty and ugliness. The texts and studies included set the multidisciplinary approach as an starting point and take into account literature, philosophy, religion, art and medicine. Their guiding thread is the ambivalence of pain, positive or negative, as an expression of beauty or ugliness and as a promoter of desperation or an intense inner life.