Aftermath Violence and the Remaking of a Self

Name: Aftermath Violence and the Remaking of a Self
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ISBN: 9780691115702

ISBN-10: 0691115702

ISBN-13: 9780691115702

Edition: 2001

Authors: Susan J. Brison

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On July 4, 1990, while on a morning walk in southern France, Susan Brison was attacked from behind, severely beaten, sexually assaulted, strangled to unconsciousness, and left for dead. She survived, but her world was destroyed. Her training as a philosopher could not help her make sense of things, and many of her fundamental assumptions about the nature of the self and the world it inhabits were shattered. At once a personal narrative of recovery and a philosophical exploration of trauma, this book examines the undoing and remaking of a self in the aftermath of violence. It explores, from an interdisciplinary perspective, memory and truth, identity and self, autonomy and community. It…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 10/26/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 5.47" wide x 9.80" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Preface



Surviving Sexual Violence



On the Personal as Philosophical



Outliving Oneself



Acts of Memory



The Politics of Forgetting



Retellings


Afterword


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index