About this philosophy book
3F5D5785d01 by dorkand is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became a modern classic, and has had an enormous influence in America and abroad on thinking about the arts and contemporary culture. As well as the title essay and the famous "Notes on Camp," Against Interpretation includes original and provocative discussions of Sartre, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, science-fiction movies, psychoanalysis, and contemporary religious thinking. This edition features a new afterword by Sontag. Review "Susan Sontag's essays are great interpretations, and even fulfillments, of what is really going on."--Carlos Fuentes "A dazzling intellectual performance."-- Vogue "Susan Sontag is a writer of rare energy and provocative newness."-- The Nation "The theoretical portions of her book are delightful to read because she can argue so well. . . . Her ideas are consistently stimulating."-- Commentary "She has come to symbolize the writer and thinker in many variations: as analyst, rhapsodist, and roving eye, as public scold and portable conscience."-- Time From the Publisher The first collection of essays by the brilliant critic and writer to be published in book for
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- dorkand
- Publisher
- The Noonday Press, a division of Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780312280864
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, History