Susan Sontag

Broschiertes Buch

Regarding the Pain of Others

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. Her non-fiction works include On Photography, Regarding the Pain of Others and At the Same Time. She was also the author of four novels, including The Volcano Lover and In America, as well as a collection of stories and several plays. She was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, and received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. She died in December 2004.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin / Penguin Books UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 473789
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 129mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 98g
• ISBN-13: 9780141012377
• ISBN-10: 0141012374
• Artikelnr.: 22145407