![]() “What is important now,” she wrote, “is to recover our senses…In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.” Against Interpretation’s treatment of an astonishing range of subjects-camp sensibility, the films of Robert Bresson and Alain Resnais, the aesthetics of science-fiction and “happenings,” the work of such modern thinkers as Simone Weil and Antonin Artaud, Michel Leiris and Claude Lévi-Strauss-reveals Sontag as a catalyzing figure who opened provocative perspectives on every subject she addressed. ![]() With the publication of her first collection of critical essays, Against Interpretation (1966), Sontag took her place at the forefront of a period of cultural and political transformation. This volume brings together four essential works of the 1960s and 70s, books whose intelligence and brilliant style confirm her credo that “the highest duty of a writer is to write well-to leave the language in better rather than worse shape after one’s passage…Language is the body, and also the soul, of consciousness.” More than a commentator on her era, she helped shape it. ![]() As a critic, she became the most provocative and influential voice of her time. ![]() ![]() Susan Sontag was an incandescent presence in American culture, whether as essayist, fiction writer, filmmaker, or political activist. ![]()
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