Essays of the 1960s & 70s: Against Interpretation, Styles of Radical Will, on Photography, Illness as Metaphor, Uncollected Essays Sontag SusanPevná vazba

With the publication of her first book of criticism, Against Interpretation, in 1966, Susan Sontag placed herself at the forefront of an era of cultural and political transformation. In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art." She would remain a catalyzing presence, whether writing about camp sensibility, the films of Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais, her experiences as a traveler to Hanoi at the height of the Vietnam War, the aesthetics of science-fiction and pornography, or a range of modern thinkers from Simone Weil to E. M. Cioran. "What is important now," she wrote, "is to recover our senses . . . .

This volume, edited by Sontag's son David Rieff, presents the full texts of four essential books: Against Interpretation, She opened dazzling new perspectives on any subject she addressed, whether the nature of photography or cultural attitudes toward illness.