The Resource Tough enough : Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil, Deborah Nelson
Tough enough : Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil, Deborah Nelson
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 208 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction: tough enough
- Simone Weil: thinking tragically in the age of trauma
- Hannah Arendt: irony and atrocity
- Mary McCarthy: the aesthetic of the fact
- Susan Sontag: an-aesthetics and agency
- Diane Arbus: a feeling for the camera
- Joan Didion: the question of self-pity
- Isbn
- 9780226457802
- Label
- Tough enough : Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil
- Title
- Tough enough
- Title remainder
- Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil
- Statement of responsibility
- Deborah Nelson
- Subject
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- Arbus, Diane, 1923-1971
- Arbus, Diane, 1923-1971
- Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975
- Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975
- Didion, Joan
- Didion, Joan
- MacCarthy, Mary, 1882-1953
- MacCarthy, Mary, 1882-1953
- Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004
- Aesthetics -- Psychological aspects
- Suffering in art
- Suffering in art
- Suffering in literature
- Suffering in literature
- Toughness (Personality trait)
- Toughness (Personality trait)
- Weil, Simone, 1909-1943
- Weil, Simone, 1909-1943
- Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004
- Aesthetics -- Psychological aspects
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- ICU/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1962-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Nelson, Deborah
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Weil, Simone
- Arendt, Hannah
- Sontag, Susan
- MacCarthy, Mary
- Arbus, Diane
- Didion, Joan
- Arbus, Diane
- Arendt, Hannah
- Didion, Joan
- MacCarthy, Mary
- Sontag, Susan
- Weil, Simone
- Toughness (Personality trait)
- Aesthetics
- Suffering in literature
- Suffering in art
- Aesthetics
- Suffering in art
- Suffering in literature
- Toughness (Personality trait)
- Label
- Tough enough : Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil, Deborah Nelson
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: tough enough -- Simone Weil: thinking tragically in the age of trauma -- Hannah Arendt: irony and atrocity -- Mary McCarthy: the aesthetic of the fact -- Susan Sontag: an-aesthetics and agency -- Diane Arbus: a feeling for the camera -- Joan Didion: the question of self-pity
- Control code
- 958780855
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- 208 pages
- Isbn
- 9780226457802
- Lccn
- 2016054300
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)958780855
- Label
- Tough enough : Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil, Deborah Nelson
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: tough enough -- Simone Weil: thinking tragically in the age of trauma -- Hannah Arendt: irony and atrocity -- Mary McCarthy: the aesthetic of the fact -- Susan Sontag: an-aesthetics and agency -- Diane Arbus: a feeling for the camera -- Joan Didion: the question of self-pity
- Control code
- 958780855
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- 208 pages
- Isbn
- 9780226457802
- Lccn
- 2016054300
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)958780855
Subject
- Arbus, Diane, 1923-1971
- Arbus, Diane, 1923-1971
- Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975
- Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975
- Didion, Joan
- Didion, Joan
- MacCarthy, Mary, 1882-1953
- MacCarthy, Mary, 1882-1953
- Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004
- Aesthetics -- Psychological aspects
- Suffering in art
- Suffering in art
- Suffering in literature
- Suffering in literature
- Toughness (Personality trait)
- Toughness (Personality trait)
- Weil, Simone, 1909-1943
- Weil, Simone, 1909-1943
- Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004
- Aesthetics -- Psychological aspects
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