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'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.' These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture, and made Susan Sontag a literary sensati
'The most original and illuminating study of the subject' New Yorker Photographs are everywhere. From high art to family albums to legal evidence, they capture and document the world around us. And whether we use them to expose, reveal or remember
Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject. Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everyw
'In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could do to any person; I create myself' Intimate, vulnerable and unsparing, R eborn bears witness to the evolution of Susan Sontag. With entries dating from 1947-1963, the first inst
Regarding the Pain of Others is Susan Sontag's searing analysis of our numbed response to images of horror. 'A coruscating sermon on how we picture suffering' The New York Times What is the purpose of images of pain and suffering? Can there be
A brilliant, glittering intelligence Sunday Times On Women brings together Susan Sontag's most fearless and incisive writing on women, a crucial aspect of her work that has not until now received the attention it deserves Written during the height of
Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor in 1978 , while suffering from breast cancer herself. In her study she reveals that the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients and often inhibit t
A series of provocative discussions on everything from individual authors to contemporary religious thinking, Against Interpretation and Other Essays is the definitive collection of Susan Sontag's best known and important works published in Penguin Mo
'The only transformation that interests me is a total transformation- however minute. I want the encounter with a person or a work of art to change everything.' Brazen, brilliant and deeply searing, Sontag's diaries wrestle with the profound -
This collection of essays contains some of the most important pieces of criticism of the twentieth century, including the classics 'The Aesthetics of Silence', a brilliant account of language, thought and consciousness, and 'Trip to Hanoi'
A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag's writing on women, gathering early essays on aging, equality, beauty, sexuality, and fascism Susan Sontag was one of the most formidable, original, and influential thinkers of the last century. "
A brilliant, clear-eyed consideration of the visual representation of violence in our culture--its ubiquity, meanings, and effects. Considered one of the greatest critics of her generation, Susan Sontag followed up her monumental On Photography with an ex
Susan Sontag's celebrated essays on cancer and AIDS now available in one volume. In 1978, 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 whe
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A new edition of Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography--its problems, politics, and possibilities. "To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed," Sonta
A reissue of Susan Sontag's classic first collection, featuring some of her most beloved writing -- on art, life, camp, and criticism --that cemented her legacy as one of the brightest thinkers of, and beyond, her generation. Susan Sontag is widely re
Hvordan formes sygdom af samfundets forestillinger, metaforer og frygt? Susan Sontag blotlægger med vanlig intellektuel præcision de kulturelle billeder, der knytter sig til tuberkulose, kræft og senere aids og viser, hvordan sygdom ikke blot er en biolog
On Women brings together Susan Sontag's most fearless and incisive writing on women, a crucial aspect of her work that has not until now received the attention it deserves. For the most part written in the 1970s during the height of second-wave femini
Fotografiet er en elegisk kunstart, en tusmørkekunst. Susan Sontag undersøger fotografiets potentiale som dokumentation, vidnesbyrd, kunst, manipulationsredskab og produkt virkeligheden indfanget i en firkantet miniversion. Om fotografi er en klassiker i
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. "What is important now," she wrote, "is to recover our s