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Regarding the Pain of Others (Picador Modern Classics) Hardcover – 7 November 2017

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Beautifully repackaged as part of the Picador Modern Classics Series, this special edition is small enough to fit in your pocket and bold enough to stand out on your bookshelf.

Considered one of the greatest critics of her generation, Susan Sontag followed up her monumental On Photography with an extended study of human violence, reflecting on a question first posed by Virginia Woolf in Three Guineas: How in your opinion are we to prevent war?

"For a long time some people believed that if the horror could be made vivid enough, most people would finally take in the outrageousness, the insanity of war."

One of the distinguishing features of modern life is that it supplies countless opportunities for regarding (at a distance, through the medium of photography) horrors taking place throughout the world. But are viewers inured―or incited―to violence by the depiction of cruelty? Is the viewer’s perception of reality eroded by the daily barrage of such images? What does it mean to care about the sufferings of others far away?

First published more than twenty years after her now classic book On Photography, which changed how we understand the very condition of being modern, Regarding the Pain of Others challenges our thinking not only about the uses and means of images, but about how war itself is waged (and understood) in our time, the limits of sympathy, and the obligations of conscience.

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“Wise and somber. . .Sontag's closing words acknowledge that there are realities which no picture can convey.” ―Los Angeles Times Book Review

"These literary gems are the perfect stocking-stuffer size for the serious reader on your list; you’ll look smart wrapping up one or all of them." --USA Today

“The history of sensibility in a culture shaped by the mechanical reproduction of imagery....has always been one of the guiding preoccupations of her best work, from Against Interpretation to The Volcano Lover....Regarding the Pain of Others invites, and rewards, more than one reading.” ―Newsday

“For 30 years, Susan Sontag has been challenging an entire generation to think about the things that frighten us most: war, disease, death. Her books illuminate without simplifying, complicate without obfuscating, and insist above all that to ignore what threatens us is both irresponsible and dangerous.” ―O, The Oprah Magazine

“A timely meditation on politics and ethics. . .extraordinary . . .Sontag's insight and erudition are profound.” ―The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“Regarding the Pain of Others bristles with a sense of commitment--to seeing the world as it is, to worrying about the ways it is represented, even to making some gesture in the direction of changing it. . .the performance is thrilling to witness.” ―The New York Times Magazine

“A fiercely challenging book. . .immensely thought-provoking.” ―The Christian Science Monitor

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About the Author

SUSAN SONTAG (1933–2004) was the author of four novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for Fiction; a collection of stories, I, Etcetera; several plays, including Alice in Bed and Lady from the Sea; and seven works of nonfiction, among them On Photography, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, Illness as Metaphor, and Where the Stress Falls. Her books have been translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001, she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work; in 2003, she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.

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Item Weight : 113 g
Hardcover : 192 pages
ISBN-10 : 1250160685
ISBN-13 : 978-1250160683
Dimensions : 9.6 x 1.45 x 14.61 cm
Publisher : Picador Modern Classics (7 November 2017)
Language: : English

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Bhagirathy J. Panth

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Beautiful purse book. Love this series by picador.

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mansi mudgal

To better understand the book and her views

Reviewed in India on 18 March 2018

This is the second volume by Sontag on photography, and it is in many ways a continuation of the investigations of the first book. To better understand the book and her views, I'd suggest that the reader needs to read 'On Photography' first.
Sontag starts her essay by talking about Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas, and Woolf's rejection of the assumption that all feel the same way about war.
The book talks about the history of war photography, which is intimately bound with the history of public tolerance of violent photos, During the course of reading, I had to look up several examples cited by the author, the horrors of Vietnam War, World War, the 1857 Sepoy rebellion in India etc. which turned out to be difficult but necessary and eye opening.
While Sontag does not provide any revolutionary ideas, the essay is a succinct and thorough examination of the issues surrounding photography.
A photograph cannot immediately transmit understanding. A photograph cannot help us understand what it is to fight and kill in war or to have to dig up bombs or lose loved ones. A photograph, though a means of objectifying and transmitting memories, lacks context for a more complete individual understanding of events. It is equally about what does not make it to the frame than what does! What are we not seeing? Is the left out version not equally important? Or even more important?
Even though Sontag does not offer us a grand thesis to keep in mind or a solution to the issues that plague photo journalism, she gives us thought-provoking observations. She notes, for example, that displaying photos of dead bodies is less taboo the more foreign and exotic those bodies are, how staged photos in today's time are used to generate distrust and enmity between communities and countries

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Tariki

Well worth reading

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 October 2019

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For anyone shocked, even ashamed, by their very own prurience in observing the suffering and pain of others, this is worth reading. We are bombarded with images of war, of the agony of other human beings. It seems whatever reaction we have, or even how perversely attractive such observation is, we can perhaps never actually fully know the reality of any "other". I believe - is it faith? - that in knowing ourselves in our full depths we CAN come to know. "The Tao can be shared but never divided", and "differentiation does not mean separation". In knowing, we act, rather than merely feel.

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anon

The easily accessible writing style is the perfect cushion for the ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 May 2017

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The easily accessible writing style is the perfect cushion for the tough introspection this book forces on the reader. Thoroughly recommend.

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Josh H

A good read but flawed

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 November 2020

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An interesting analysis by sontag, but lacking in good argument and reason to back up her ideas. Well written and an interesting read for those concerned with the ethics of photography.

Pat Garrett

wonderful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 May 2017

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a worthy addition to the Sontag collection of works.....wonderful insight

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moeva rinaldo

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 August 2018

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A lovely book thanks.

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