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Introduction: Tough Enough
1 Simone Weil: Thinking Tragically in the Age of Trauma
2 Hannah Arendt: Irony and Atrocity
3 Mary McCarthy: The Aesthetic of the Fact
4 Susan Sontag: An-aesthetics and Agency
5 Diane Arbus: A Feeling for the Camera
6 Joan Didion: The Question of Self-Pity
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index