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Against Interpretation
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. -
At the Same Time
Sontag's incisive intelligence, expressive brilliance, and deep curiosity about art, politics, and the writer's responsibility to bear witness have secured her place as one of the most important thinkers and writers of the twentieth century. At the Same Time gathers sixteen essays and speeches written in the last years of Sontag's life, when her work was being honored on the international stage. She writes of the freedom of literature, about courage and resistance, and fearlessly addresses the dilemmas of post-9/11 America, from the degradation of our political rhetoric to the appalling torture of prisoners in Abu Ghraib. David Rieff describes his mother's passion in his foreword: "She wanted to experience everything, taste everything, go everywhere, do everything. Indeed, if I had only one word with which to evoke her, it would be avidity. . . . I think that, for her, the joy of living and the joy of knowing really were one and the same." -
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote "Illness as Metaphor," a classic work described by "Newsweek" as "one of the most liberating books of its time." A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding cancer, Sontag shows cancer for what it is--just a disease. Cancer, she argues, is not a curse, not a punishment, certainly not an embarrassment and, it is highly curable, if good treatment is followed. Almost a decade later, with the outbreak of a new, stigmatized disease replete with mystifications and punitive metaphors, Sontag wrote a sequel to "Illness" "as Metaphor," extending the argument of the earlier book to the AIDS pandemic. These two essays now published together, "Illness" "as Metaphor "and "AIDS and Its Metaphors," have been translated into many languages and continue to have an enormous influence on the thinking of medical professionals and, above all, on the lives of many thousands of patients and caregivers. -
艺术的背后
艺术的背后:桑塔格论艺术,ISBN:9787538625103,作者:桑塔格 -
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
"Against Interpretation" was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of readers all over the world. It includes some of Sontag's best-known works, among them "On Style", "Notes on 'Camp", and the titular essay "Against Interpretation", where Sontag argues that modern cultural conditions have given way to a new critical approach to aesthetics. -
蘇珊.桑塔格文選
桑塔格是近代美國少數最重要的作家及公眾知識分子之一。 . 過去四十年來,她的創作及言論掌握著時代的脈搏,言行觸動著國際事件的敏感神經,並不斷挑戰我們對世局的反應。 . 由桑塔格與陳耀成先生為華文讀者選編的這本文集,共收錄了桑塔格近十年來的三篇訪談、兩篇演講詞和一篇文論,除其中一篇外,其餘各篇只散見報刊,從未收錄於其他文集之中,而壓卷作(戰爭與攝影)的英文原稿,牛津大學甚至尚未出版。可以說這是桑塔格首先以中文出版的一本新著。 . 從書中收錄的訪談與文字,可以清楚了解桑塔格近十年對於文學創作、知識分子的定義與責任、後現代主義、中國、影像和戰爭(特別是波士尼亞戰爭)等問題的看法,並讓我們在閱讀之後無法迴避文字、影像與良心之間複雜的辯證關係與要求。