Against Interpretation: And Other Essays

Susan Sontag,Sontag

Against Interpretation: And Other Essays
Format
Paperback
Publisher
St Martin's Press
Country
United States
Published
25 August 2001
Pages
336
ISBN
9780312280864

Against Interpretation: And Other Essays

Susan Sontag,Sontag

Includes the essay Notes on Camp, the inspiration for the 2019 exhibition Notes on Fashion: Camp at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag’s first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of readers all over the world. It includes the groundbreaking essays Notes on Camp and Against Interpretation, as well as her impassioned discussions of Sartre, Camus, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, Levi-Strauss, science-fiction movies, psychoanalysis, and contemporary religious thought.

This edition has a new afterword, Thirty Years Later, in which Sontag restates the terms of her battle against philistinism and against ethical shallowness and indifference.

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