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Aftermath: Violence And The Remaking Of A Self
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 offers imaginative access to the experience of a rape survivor as well as a reflective critique of a society in which women
routinely fear and suffer sexual violence As Brison observes trauma disrupts memory severs past from present and incapacitates the ability to envision a future Yet the act of bearing witness she argues facilitates recovery by integrating the experience into the survivor's life's story She also argues for the importance as well as the hazards of using first-person narratives in understanding not only trauma but also larger philosophical questions about what we can know and how we should live Bravely and beautifully written Aftermath is that rare book that is an illustration of its own arguments
routinely fear and suffer sexual violence As Brison observes trauma disrupts memory severs past from present and incapacitates the ability to envision a future Yet the act of bearing witness she argues facilitates recovery by integrating the experience into the survivor's life's story She also argues for the importance as well as the hazards of using first-person narratives in understanding not only trauma but also larger philosophical questions about what we can know and how we should live Bravely and beautifully written Aftermath is that rare book that is an illustration of its own arguments
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