--- product_id: 4449005 title: "Regarding the Pain of Others" price: "€ 47.99" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.gr/products/4449005-regarding-the-pain-of-others store_origin: GR region: Greece --- # Regarding the Pain of Others **Price:** € 47.99 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Regarding the Pain of Others - **How much does it cost?** € 47.99 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.gr](https://www.desertcart.gr/products/4449005-regarding-the-pain-of-others) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description A brilliant, clear-eyed consideration of the visual representation of violence in our culture―its ubiquity, meanings, and effects. Considered one of the greatest critics of her generation, Susan Sontag followed up her monumental On Photography with an extended study of human violence, reflecting on a question first posed by Virginia Woolf in Three Guineas : How in your opinion are we to prevent war? “For a long time some people believed that if the horror could be made vivid enough, most people would finally take in the outrageousness, the insanity of war.” One of the distinguishing features of modern life is that it supplies countless opportunities for regarding (at a distance, through the medium of photography) horrors taking place throughout the world. But are viewers inured―or incited―to violence by the depiction of cruelty? Is the viewer’s perception of reality eroded by the daily barrage of such images? What does it mean to care about the suffering of others far away? First published more than twenty years after her now-classic book On Photography , which changed how we understand the very condition of being modern, Regarding the Pain of Others challenges our thinking not only about the uses and means of images, but about how war itself is waged (and understood) in our time, the limits of sympathy, and the obligations of conscience. Review: Insightful. - I had never heard of Susan Sontag prior to my Survey of Photography class. We read the first chapter of "On Photography", it was good. I went ahead and bought the book myself. Later in the semester we read a short bit on "Regarding the Pain of Others", it was even better. All I can say is based on those 2, especially this one, Susan Sontag is amazing. I don't agree with everything she says, but I can't recall an instance that I felt she was misguided or confused. Her thoughts and ideas are well founded and presented. I've since learned of her reputation, and must say she earned it. It's a shame she didn't have more time to write, though there are many other pieces I've yet to read. The best thing I can say is that reading her allows for, in my experience, the chance to almost have a discussion with her. It's written in such a way that it isn't spoon fed to the reader. That's not to say it's a hard read, but it's open enough that your own thoughts can blend with hers. Review: On Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others - Beautifully written and enlightening picture of the cruelty people afflict on one another without thinking or even realizing that the one that is receiving the pain is exactly like us, a human being, with a heart, a soul and a mind. Why can’t we as humankind learn to see beyond our differences and enjoy the beauty of living? Collectively we could do so much good if we lived and let live, as long as someone does no harm to others, why do we care what religion, sexual orientation, color or lack of, or whatever someone chooses to believe? Let weird be weirder and wacky be wackier as long as we live in peace with the earth and it’s resources. Sontag is a brilliant writer. I love her thoughts, I wish everyone would read her books. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #79,621 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #9 in Photography Criticism & Essays (Books) #34 in Violence in Society (Books) #47 in Communication & Media Studies | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 913 Reviews | ## Images ![Regarding the Pain of Others - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81rpmmHEbkL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Insightful. *by B***N on October 28, 2016* I had never heard of Susan Sontag prior to my Survey of Photography class. We read the first chapter of "On Photography", it was good. I went ahead and bought the book myself. Later in the semester we read a short bit on "Regarding the Pain of Others", it was even better. All I can say is based on those 2, especially this one, Susan Sontag is amazing. I don't agree with everything she says, but I can't recall an instance that I felt she was misguided or confused. Her thoughts and ideas are well founded and presented. I've since learned of her reputation, and must say she earned it. It's a shame she didn't have more time to write, though there are many other pieces I've yet to read. The best thing I can say is that reading her allows for, in my experience, the chance to almost have a discussion with her. It's written in such a way that it isn't spoon fed to the reader. That's not to say it's a hard read, but it's open enough that your own thoughts can blend with hers. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ On Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others *by S***. on July 3, 2021* Beautifully written and enlightening picture of the cruelty people afflict on one another without thinking or even realizing that the one that is receiving the pain is exactly like us, a human being, with a heart, a soul and a mind. Why can’t we as humankind learn to see beyond our differences and enjoy the beauty of living? Collectively we could do so much good if we lived and let live, as long as someone does no harm to others, why do we care what religion, sexual orientation, color or lack of, or whatever someone chooses to believe? Let weird be weirder and wacky be wackier as long as we live in peace with the earth and it’s resources. Sontag is a brilliant writer. I love her thoughts, I wish everyone would read her books. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great work on the power and deceipt of images *by H***N on November 13, 2009* Susan Sontag is known as a lover as well as a critique of photography. In Regarding the Pain of Others she focuses on the impact of horrible war-images - starting with paintings such as Goya's Disasters of the War (1810-1820) going up to the present, in which first photography and then film have taken over. She rightly and strongly criticises the old idea that 'pictures show the truth', and horrible pictures 'the truth of war', an idea especially popular in the Interwar Years (Ernst Friedrich, Virginia Woolf), but certainly anything but dead after 1945. Pictures have frames so they are framed (even when they are not staged or manipulated) and therefore can not show the truth in all its nuance, in all its effects. And besides: the photographer can have his or her intentions when painting or shooting the image, but that is not to say that this intention is indeed the consequence publication will have. A book that makes you think, and that is always a compliment. Leo van Bergen Author of: Before my Helpless Sight. Suffering, dying and military medicine on the Western Front 1914-1918 (Ashgate Publishing 2009) ## Frequently Bought Together - Regarding the Pain of Others - On Photography - Against Interpretation: And Other Essays --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.gr/products/4449005-regarding-the-pain-of-others](https://www.desertcart.gr/products/4449005-regarding-the-pain-of-others) --- *Product available on Desertcart Greece* *Store origin: GR* *Last updated: 2026-06-01*