Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a SelfA powerful personal narrative of recovery and an illuminating philosophical exploration of trauma |
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... 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 brain-damaged as a result of the head injuries I had sustained. Or ...
... but, rather than revise my earlier writings in light of more recent understandings, I have tried to convey the trajectory of my ideas. As Ursula Le Guin writes, “It doesn't xi Preface AFTERMATH seem right or wise to revise an old text.
... write it now— less angry, less urgent, and somewhat more detached. But I have left it in its original form (except for a few minor stylistic revisions) in order to convey my perspective soon after the event. Chapter 2 is a development ...
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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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