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  title info:
    title: Tough enough
    sub title: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil
  name:
    name part: Nelson, Deborah
    name part: 1962-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 208 pages ; 23 cm
  abstract: 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.
  table of 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.
  note: Deborah Nelson.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Weil, Simone
      name part: 1909-1943
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Arendt, Hannah
      name part: 1906-1975
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Sontag, Susan
      name part: 1933-2004
  subject:
    name:
      name part: MacCarthy, Mary
      name part: 1882-1953
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Arbus, Diane
      name part: 1923-1971
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Didion, Joan
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Arbus, Diane
      name part: 1923-1971
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Arendt, Hannah
      name part: 1906-1975
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Didion, Joan
  subject:
    name:
      name part: MacCarthy, Mary
      name part: 1882-1953
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Sontag, Susan
      name part: 1933-2004
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Weil, Simone
      name part: 1909-1943
  subject:
    topic: Toughness (Personality trait)
  subject:
    topic: Aesthetics
    topic: Psychological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Suffering in literature
  subject:
    topic: Suffering in art
  subject:
    topic: Aesthetics
    topic: Psychological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Suffering in art
  subject:
    topic: Suffering in literature
  subject:
    topic: Toughness (Personality trait)
  classification: PS151 .N45 2017
  classification: 810.9/9287
  identifier: 9780226457772
  identifier: 022645777X
  identifier: 9780226457802
  identifier: 022645780X
  identifier: 9780226457949
  identifier: 2016054300
  record info:
    record content source: ICU/DLC
    record creation date: 161123
    record change date: 20170421123736.0
    record identifier: in00003842390
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng