Hold everything dear : dispatches on survival and resistance / John Berger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berger, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Security, International.

War--Causes.

War.

Equality.

Power (Social sciences).

International economic relations.

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.

Physical Description:

vi, 148 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Pantheon Books, [2007]

Summary:

From one of the most widely admired, articulate, and impassioned writers of the modern era comes this powerful collection of essays that holds a starkly reflective mirror up to the post-9/11 world.

Contents:

Twelve theses on the economy of the dead

Wanting now

Seven levels of despair

Undefeated despair

I would softly tell my love

Where are we?

War against terrorism or a terrorist war?

Let us think about fear

Stones

The chorus in our heads or pier Paolo Pasolini

A master of pitilessness?

Ten dispatches about endurance in the face of walls

Flesh and speeches

About disconnecting

Ten dispatches about place

Another side of desire

Looking carefully

two women photographers

Notes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-148).

ISBN:

9780375425097

0375425098

OCLC:

122291567