{"product_id":"aftermath-violence-and-the-remaking-of-a-self-9780691115702","title":"Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self","description":"\u003cp\u003eA powerful personal narrative of recovery and an illuminating philosophical exploration of trauma  On July 4  1990  while on a morning walk in southern France  Susan Brison was attacked from behind  severely beaten  sexually assaulted  strangled to unconsciousness  and left for dead. She survived  but her world was destroyed. Her training as a philosopher could not help her make sense of things  and many of her fundamental assumptions about the nature of the self and the world it inhabits were shattered.  At once a personal narrative of recovery and a philosophical exploration of trauma  this bravely and beautifully written book examines the undoing and remaking of a self in the aftermath of violence. It explores  from an interdisciplinary perspective  memory and truth  identity and self  autonomy and community. It offers imaginative access to the experience of a rape survivor as well as a reflective critique of a society in which women routinely fear and suffer sexual violence.  As Brison observes  trauma disrupts memory  severs past from present  and incapacitates the ability to envision a future. Yet the act of bearing witness  she argues  facilitates recovery by integrating the experience into the survivors lifes story. She also argues for the importance  as well as the hazards  of using first-person narratives in understanding not only trauma  but also larger philosophical questions about what we can know and how we should live.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45279837880373,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691115702","price":28.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691115702.jpg?v=1780613001","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/aftermath-violence-and-the-remaking-of-a-self-9780691115702","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}