Tough enough : Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil /
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 p...
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The University of Chicago Press,
2017.
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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.
