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Tough Enough
Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil
Taschenbuch von Deborah Nelson
Sprache: Englisch

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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 [...] 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.
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 [...] 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.
Über den Autor
Deborah Nelson is associate professor of English at the University of Chicago.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Genre: Importe
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780226457802
ISBN-10: 022645780X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Nelson, Deborah
Hersteller: The University of Chicago Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 227 x 151 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Deborah Nelson
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.04.2017
Gewicht: 0,333 kg
Artikel-ID: 103340878
Über den Autor
Deborah Nelson is associate professor of English at the University of Chicago.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Genre: Importe
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780226457802
ISBN-10: 022645780X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Nelson, Deborah
Hersteller: The University of Chicago Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 227 x 151 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Deborah Nelson
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.04.2017
Gewicht: 0,333 kg
Artikel-ID: 103340878
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