Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a SelfA powerful personal narrative of recovery and an illuminating philosophical exploration of trauma |
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... attempted murder in the south of France, I sat down at my computer to write about it for the first time and all I could come up with was a list of paradoxes. Things had stopped making sense. I thought it was quite possible that I was ...
... attempting to render it intelligible and sayable? The paradoxes of traumatic memory may seem to defy analysis. Our ordinary ... attempt to explain these cryptic observations, and, in so doing, I develop and defend a view of the self as ...
... attempted murder, and sentenced to ten years in prison. His sentence is finished today. It's tempting to think, as I release this book into the world, that mine is, too, although I know there will be many returns of the day, more ...
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Contents
TWO On the Personal as Philosophical | 23 |
THREE Outliving Oneself | 37 |
FOUR Acts of Memory | 67 |
FIVE The Politics of Forgetting | 85 |
SIX Retellings | 101 |
Afterword | 119 |
Acknowledgments | 125 |
Notes | 129 |
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