{"product_id":"tough-enough-arbus-arendt-didion-mccarthy-sontag-weil-paperback","title":"Tough Enough: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDeborah Nelson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eTough Enough\u003c\/i\u003e traces the careers of these women and their challenges to the pre-eminence of empathy as \u003ci\u003ethe\u003c\/i\u003e 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 familiar 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeborah Nelson\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of English at the University of Chicago. She is the author of \u003ci\u003ePursuing Privacy in Cold War America\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 03, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52702374134067,"sku":"9780226457802","price":56.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/cjdhOG9hZml5M1lTamFMYzlJeWtnZz09.webp?v=1763305146","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/tough-enough-arbus-arendt-didion-mccarthy-sontag-weil-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}