Paperback • 2004 • English

Regarding the Pain of Others

By Susan Sontag

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About the book

Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual representations of war and violence in our culture today. How does the spectacle of the sufferings of others (via television or newspapers) affect us? Are viewers inured--or incited--to violence by the depiction of cruelty? In Regarding the Pain of Others, Sontag takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocity--from Goya's The Disasters of War to photographs of the American Civil War, lynchi...Show more

Philosophy and Religion

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2004

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English

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Regarding the Pain of Others

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Paperback

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