Regarding the Pain of Others | 誠品線上

旁觀他人之痛苦

內容簡介

內容簡介 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.

各界推薦

各界推薦 記錄戰爭暴行的攝影，可以導致南轅北轍的兩極化反應：有人力主和平，也有人則要血債血還。戰爭攝影激起了我們太多憎惡與憐憫的情緒，因為照片確實殘忍到令人無法逼視。然而，我們是否都不該忘了追問：還有哪些照片，誰的暴行，哪些死者，不曾被披露？當代最重要的思想家桑塔格，以敏銳的觀察、尖銳的批判、理性而不失感性的筆觸，探討影像與戰爭暴力間錯縱複雜的關係。她認為戰爭的受害者、傷痛的親屬以及新聞消費者，各自與戰爭有著遠近不一的距離，似乎只在最遙遠的異鄉，也就是觀者最不可能知悉的地方，攝影師才能以坦誠的態度呈現戰爭的實相。桑塔格向來觀點犀利，本書更多了幾分直接而坦率的人道關懷。

作者介紹

作者介紹 Susan Sontag is 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 five works of nonfiction, among them Against Interpretation and On Photography, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. Her books are translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001, she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work, and she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature in 2003.

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