Regarding the Pain of Others [electronic resource]
Susan Sontag2013
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Regarding the Pain of Others is Susan Sontag's searing analysis of our numbed
response to images of horror.
From Goya's Disasters of War to news footage and photographs of the conflicts in
Vietnam, Rwanda and Bosnia, pictures have been charged with inspiring dissent,
fostering violence or instilling apathy in us, the viewer. Regarding the Pain of
Others will alter our thinking not only about the uses and meanings of images,
but about the nature of war, the limits of sympathy, and the obligations of
conscience.
'Powerful, fascinating. Sontag is our outstanding contemporary writer in the
moralist tradition'Sunday Times
'A coruscating sermon on how we picture suffering'The New York Times
'A far-reaching set of ruminations on human suffering, the nature of goodness,
the lures, deceptions and truth of images . . . in short, a summary of what it
means to be alive and alert in the twentieth century'Independent
'Sontag is on top form: firing devastating questions'Los An...
Main title:
Regarding the Pain of Others [electronic resource] / Susan Sontag
Author:
Susan Sontag, Author
Imprint:
United Kingdom : Penguin, 2013
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (128 pages)
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780141914954
Language:
English
BRN:
434527
Electronic access:
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |