sontag, susan

Features a critique of photography that asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. This title examines th

Includes ardent pieces on writers from the author's own private canon - Machado de Assis, Barthes, W G Sebald, Borges, Tsvetaeva and Elizabeth Hardwic

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

Susan Sontag geldt bijna twintig jaar na haar dood nog steeds als een van de grootste, origineelste Amerikaanse denkers. Geen ander weet culturele fen

'I intend to do everything ...I shall anticipate pleasure everywhere and find it too, for it is everywhere! I shall involve myself wholly ...everythin

Contains sixteen essays. Reflecting on literature, photography and art, post 9/11 America and political activism, this title includes these essays tha

Argues that modern cultural conditions have given way to a critical approach to aesthetics.

'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 boundarie

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

With the publication of her first book of criticism, Against Interpretation, in 1966, Susan Sontag placed herself at the forefront of an era of cultur

A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag's writing on women, gathering early essays on aging, equality, beauty, sexuality, and fascism Susan

'Magnificent... Her famous seriousness pervades throughout... What's striking is the astonishing scope, potential and possibility Sontag saw in short

A collection of one of our most powerful intellectual’s short fiction Debriefing collects all of Susan Sontag’s shorter fiction, a form she turned to

‘Dit is een belangrijk werk, Sontags onderzoek naar ons denken over ziek zijn is nog altijd relevant en soms onverwacht troostrijk. Geschreven met een

A story inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland's most celebrated actress, accompanied by her husband, Count Karo

‘Sontag herinnert ons eraan dat scherp en onafhankelijk nadenken – over politiek, over kunst, over seks, over ziekte – meer is dan een teken van intel

Reveals that the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients and often inhibit

‘Nog altijd domineert Over fotografie het denken over fotografie. De schrijfstijl is vintage Sontag: trefzeker, stoer en stellig. Ze bracht de angsten

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was een Duits-Joodse schrijver die in de jaren 1920-1930 enkele filosofische werken publiceerde, maar zich vooral profilee