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Tough Enough
- Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil
Engelsk Paperback
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Tough Enough
- Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil
Engelsk Paperback

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This book focuses on six brilliant women who are often seen as particularly tough-minded: Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Diane Arbus, and Joan Didion. Aligned with no single tradition, they escape straightforward categories. Yet their work evinces an affinity of style and philosophical viewpoint that derives from a shared attitude toward suffering. What Mary McCarthy called a "cold eye" was not merely a personal aversion to displays of emotion: it was an unsentimental mode of attention that dictated both ethical positions and aesthetic approaches.Tough Enough traces the careers of these women and their challenges to the pre-eminence of empathy as the ethical posture from which to examine pain. Their writing and art reveal an adamant belief that the hurts of the world must be treated concretely, directly, and realistically, without recourse to either melodrama or callousness. As Deborah Nelson shows, this stance offers an important counter-tradition to the common postwar poles of emotional expressivity on the one hand and cool irony on the other. Ultimately, in its insistence on facing reality without consolation or compensation, this austere "school of the unsentimental" offers new ways to approach suffering in both its spectacular forms and all of its ordinariness.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
224
ISBN-13:
9780226457802
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
022645780X
Udg. Dato:
3 apr 2017
Længde:
12mm
Bredde:
155mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
3 apr 2017
Forfatter(e):
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