Regarding the Pain of Others

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Challenging our perception of suffering in imagery.

If you've ever found yourself desensitized to the graphic images on the news or in documentaries, "Regarding the Pain of Others" might offer you a new perspective. Susan Sontag dives deep into the ethics and impact of looking at others' suffering. It's a short, yet powerful exploration that will provoke thought about your own level of empathy and your response to media portrayals of tragedy and horror.

  • National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Criticism (2003)
  • Susanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form (2004)
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Regarding the Pain of Others

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ISBN: 9780141012377
Authors: Susan Sontag
Date of Publication: 2004-01-01
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 4.09
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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, 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. Features an analysis of our numbed response to images of horror. This title alters our thinking about the uses and meanings of images, and about the nature of war, the limits of sympathy, and the obligations of conscience.
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If you've ever found yourself desensitized to the graphic images on the news or in documentaries, "Regarding the Pain of Others" might offer you a new perspective. Susan Sontag dives deep into the ethics and impact of looking at others' suffering. It's a short, yet powerful exploration that will provoke thought about your own level of empathy and your response to media portrayals of tragedy and horror.

  • National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Criticism (2003)
  • Susanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form (2004)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.