The art of cruelty : a reckoning
(2011)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
700.453/NELSON,M
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2011]
©2011
©2011
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
288 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780393072150 (hardcover), 0393072150 (hardcover), 0393072150 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Styles of imprisonment -- Theaters of cruelty -- Great to watch -- Captivity, catharsis -- Everything is nice -- They're only dolls -- The golden rule -- Nobody said no -- The brutality of fact -- Who we are -- A situation of meat -- Precariousness -- Inflicted -- Face -- Rings of action -- Rarer and better things
Discusses whether the brutal imagery present in reality and entertainment will shock society into a less alienated state and help create a just social order or whether focusing on representations of cruelty makes society more cruel