by Susan Sontag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780312422196
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«Regarding the Pain of Others» is Susan Sontag's cultural criticism essay, published by Picador in paperback (131 pages, in English).
Essay on how images of war and suffering spread by the media shape our perception. From Goya to 9/11, Sontag asks whether constant exposure numbs us or mobilises us, and reflects on the political, informational and ethical uses of these representations.
Work originally published in 2003; this Picador edition is from 2004. It was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2003 and won the Susanne K. Langer prize in 2004.
Recommended for readers interested in philosophy, photography, cultural criticism and studies on war and violence.
Susan Lee Sontag was an American writer and critic. She primarily wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp' ", in 1964. Her best-known works include the critical works Against Interpretation (1966), On Photography (1977), Illness as Metaphor (1978) and Regarding the Pain of Others (2003), the short story "The Way We Live Now" (1986) and the novels The Volcano Lover (1992) and In America (1999).
