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Regarding the Pain Of Others
[Paperback - 2004]
susan sontag
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Regarding the Pain of Others is Susan Sontag s searing analysis of our numbed response to images of horror.

A coruscating sermon on how we picture suffering The New York Times

What is the purpose of images of pain and suffering? Can there be any real justification for the creation, and consumption, of such images?

In this seminal volume, Susan Sontag examines the uses and meanings of images, from inspiring dissent to fostering violence to creating apathy. And through this lens she considers the nature of war, the limits of sympathy, and the obligations of conscience.

A far-reaching set of ruminations [...] on what it means to be alive and alert in the twenty-first century Independent

Sontag is on top form: devastating Los Angeles Times

Simple, elegant, fiercely persuasive Metro

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Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. Her non-fiction works include Against Interpretation, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, AIDS and its Metaphors, Regarding the Pain of Others and At the Same Time. She is also the author of four novels, including The Volcano Lover and In America, as well as a collection of stories and several plays. Her books are translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work, and in 2003 she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. She died in December 2004.

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