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Regarding the Pain of Others
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How does the spectacle of the sufferings of others (via television or newsprint) affect us? Are viewers inured - or incited - to violence by the depiction of cruelty? In Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocity - from Goya's The Disasters of War to photographs of the American Civil War, lynchings of blacks in the South, and the Nazi death camps, to contemporary horrific images of Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Israel and Palestine, and New York City on September 11, 2001. In Regarding the Pain of Others Susan Sontag once again changes the way we think about the uses and meanings of images in our world, and offers an important reflection about how war itself is waged (and understood) in our time.
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ISBN: 9780312422196
Published Date: February 1, 2004
Publisher: Picador
Language: English
Page Count: 131
Size: 4.84" l x 2.48" w x 0.37" h
Category
Philosophy
Subject
Ethics & Moral Philosophy