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Women Public Intellectuals  
Three women of letters who confronted the issues of their time. The late-twentieth-century American author Susan Sontag, whose works On Photography and Regarding the Pain of Others consider the impact of images of violence and suffering. How Simone de Beauvoir's ideas about the self and other developed, later shaping her book The Second Sex. The German philosopher Hannah Arendt's theories about plurality and the dangers of withdrawing from the world.
Program 230
  Participants
Susan Fraiman
Margaret Simons
Liliane Weissberg

 

 
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