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

By:

Berger, John [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Calcutta : Sea gull books, 2008Edition: 1st American edDescription: vi, 142 pages : illustration ; 20 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9788170463269 (pbk.)
0375425098

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

355.033 BER 23 016887

LOC classification:

JZ5588 .B467 2007

Online resources:

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.

Summary: Hold Everything Dear fully acknowledges the depth of suffering occurring around the world and suggests ideas and action that might finally help bring it to an end. From one of the most widely admired, articulate, and impassioned writers of our time, this is a collection of essays that holds a starkly reflective mirror up to post-9/11 realities.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	355.033 BER 016887 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		016887

Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-148).

Hold Everything Dear fully acknowledges the depth of suffering occurring around the world and suggests ideas and action that might finally help bring it to an end. From one of the most widely admired, articulate, and impassioned writers of our time, this is a collection of essays that holds a starkly reflective mirror up to post-9/11 realities.

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