A study of the force of photographic images which are continually inserted between experience and reality. It develops the concept of 'transparency'. It features six essays including In Plato's Cave, which explores how the image has affected society.
A study of the force of photographic images which are continually inserted between experience and reality. It develops the concept of 'transparency'. ...
Features an analysis of our numbed response to images of horror. This title alters our thinking about the uses and meanings of images, and about the nature of war, the limits of sympathy, and the obligations of conscience.
Features an analysis of our numbed response to images of horror. This title alters our thinking about the uses and meanings of images, and about the n...
Contains sixteen essays. Reflecting on literature, photography and art, post 9/11 America and political activism, this title includes these essays that encompass the themes that dominated the author's life and work, revealing why she remains one of the twentieth century's pre-eminent writers and thinkers.
Contains sixteen essays. Reflecting on literature, photography and art, post 9/11 America and political activism, this title includes these essays tha...
'Reborn' is a self-portrait of writer and intellectual Susan Sontag. We watch the young Sontag's complex self-awareness, share in her encounters with the writers who informed her thinking, and engage with the profound challenge of writing itself.
'Reborn' is a self-portrait of writer and intellectual Susan Sontag. We watch the young Sontag's complex self-awareness, share in her encounters with ...
As a cancer patient in the 1970s, Susan Sontag wrote 'Illness as a Metaphor' to show how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients. The second essay extends the argument to the AIDS pandemic.
As a cancer patient in the 1970s, Susan Sontag wrote 'Illness as a Metaphor' to show how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especi...
This is Susan Sontag's second collection of essays. They extend the investigations she undertool in 'Against Interpretation' with essays on film, literature, politics and a ground-breaking study of pornography.
This is Susan Sontag's second collection of essays. They extend the investigations she undertool in 'Against Interpretation' with essays on film, lite...
This is a selection from Sontag's early writings about the arts and contemporary culture. As well as the title essay, 'On Style and Notes on Camp', the book includes discussion of such figures as Sartre, Simone Weil and Genet.
This is a selection from Sontag's early writings about the arts and contemporary culture. As well as the title essay, 'On Style and Notes on Camp', th...
In this third collection of essays, the author discusses the relationship between moral and aesthetic ideas. The book brings together her most important critical writing from 1972-80 on subjects ranging from Walter Benjamin to Antonin Artaud.
In this third collection of essays, the author discusses the relationship between moral and aesthetic ideas. The book brings together her most importa...
A historical romance novel based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his wife Emma, and Lord Nelson in the final decades of the 18th century. Passionately examining the shape of Western civilisation since the Age of Enlightenment, Sontag's book is a detailed picture of revolution, the face of nature, art and love.
A historical romance novel based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his wife Emma, and Lord Nelson in the final decades of the 18th century. Passio...
'As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh' is the follow-up to 2009's 'Reborn', the first in a series of diaries from the late American critic and philosopher Susan Sontag. This, the second of three volumes of Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks, begins where the first volume left off, in the middle of the 1960s. It traces and documents Sontag's evolution from fledgling participant in the artistic and intellectual world of New York City to world-renowned critic and dominant force in the world of ideas with the publication of the groundbreaking 'Against Interpretation' in 1966.
'As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh' is the follow-up to 2009's 'Reborn', the first in a series of diaries from the late American critic and philo...