num_pages: 113
description: 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 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.
language: English
title: Regarding the Pain of Others
titlecomplete: Regarding the Pain of Others
genres: Theory, War, Philosophy, Psychology, Nonfiction, Essays, Art, Sociology, History, Photography
ratings_count: 16145
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Criticism, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Susanne K. Langer Award
category: Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form
publisher: Hamish Hamilton