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''On women'' presents seven essays and exchanges, spanning a range of subjects: the challenges and humiliations women face as they age; the relationship between women's liberation and class struggle; beauty, which Sontag calls "that over-rich brew of so many familiar opposites"; feminism; fascism; and film. Taken together, these pieces-relentlessly curious, historically(...)
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''On women'' presents seven essays and exchanges, spanning a range of subjects: the challenges and humiliations women face as they age; the relationship between women's liberation and class struggle; beauty, which Sontag calls "that over-rich brew of so many familiar opposites"; feminism; fascism; and film. Taken together, these pieces-relentlessly curious, historically precise, politically robust, and allergic to easy categorization Sontag's inimitable mind at work.
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Paru pour la première fois en 1977, Sur la photographie est devenu le livre culte sur le sujet.
Sur la photographie: oeuvre complète
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Paru pour la première fois en 1977, Sur la photographie est devenu le livre culte sur le sujet.
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January 1900, Paris
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L'oeuvre parle
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L'œuvre parle regroupe une sélection des premiers articles que Susan Sontag a écrits sur les arts et la culture contemporaine. Ce livre est rapidement devenu un classique et a eu énormément d'influence à l'étranger. En plus des fameux textes intitulés « À propos du style » et « Le style Camp », le livre contient des réflexions sur Sartre, Simone Weil, Georg Lukács,(...)
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L'œuvre parle regroupe une sélection des premiers articles que Susan Sontag a écrits sur les arts et la culture contemporaine. Ce livre est rapidement devenu un classique et a eu énormément d'influence à l'étranger. En plus des fameux textes intitulés « À propos du style » et « Le style Camp », le livre contient des réflexions sur Sartre, Simone Weil, Georg Lukács, Lévi-Strauss, Artaud, Genet, Brecht, Beckett, Bresson et Godard.
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On photography
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"On Photography" first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as "a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs." It begins with the famous "In Plato’s Cave" essay, then offers five other prose meditations on this topic, and concludes with a fascinating and far-reaching "Brief Anthology of Quotations."
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On photography
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"On Photography" first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as "a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs." It begins with the famous "In Plato’s Cave" essay, then offers five other prose meditations on this topic, and concludes with a fascinating and far-reaching "Brief Anthology of Quotations."
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This book is a collection of essays by Susan Sontag which was published in 1966. It includes some of Sontag's best-known works, including "On Style", "Notes on 'Camp'", and the titular essay "Against Interpretation". In the last, Sontag argued that in the new critical approach to aesthetics the spiritual importance of art is being replaced by the emphasis on the(...)
Against interpretation and other essays
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This book is a collection of essays by Susan Sontag which was published in 1966. It includes some of Sontag's best-known works, including "On Style", "Notes on 'Camp'", and the titular essay "Against Interpretation". In the last, Sontag argued that in the new critical approach to aesthetics the spiritual importance of art is being replaced by the emphasis on the intellect. Rather than recognizing great creative works as possible sources of energy, she argued, contemporary critics were all too often taking art's transcendental power for granted, and focusing instead on their own intellectually constructed abstractions like "form" and "content. " In effect, she wrote, interpretation had become "the intellect's revenge upon art. " The essay famously finished with the words, "in place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art".
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Devant la douleur des autres
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Dans cet essai rédigé au lendemain des attentats du 11 Septembre, Susan Sontag pose un regard neuf sur les emplois de la photographie devant les souffrances de la guerre. Près de quatre décennies après Sur la photographie, elle dessille une fois de plus les yeux de ses contemporains en s’interrogeant sur nos façons de voir et de représenter le monde. Les images « chocs »,(...)
Devant la douleur des autres
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Dans cet essai rédigé au lendemain des attentats du 11 Septembre, Susan Sontag pose un regard neuf sur les emplois de la photographie devant les souffrances de la guerre. Près de quatre décennies après Sur la photographie, elle dessille une fois de plus les yeux de ses contemporains en s’interrogeant sur nos façons de voir et de représenter le monde. Les images « chocs », omniprésentes, nous rapprochent-elles ou nous éloignent-elles de la réalité ? Nous aident-elles à comprendre les souffrances d’autrui, ou érigent-elles au contraire, entre notre oeil et ce qu’il voit, un mur d’indifférence ? Susan Sontag retrace l’évolution de la sensibilité collective face aux visions d’horreur auxquelles l’humanité ne cesse de se confronter, des tableaux de Goya aux charniers du Rwanda ou de Sarajevo en passant par les photographies de la guerre de Sécession, des tranchées de Verdun et des camps de la mort.
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This, the first of three volumes of Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks, begins with journal entries and early attempts at fiction from her years as a university and graduate student, and ends in 1964, when she was becoming a participant in and observer of the artistic and intellectual life of New York City.
Susan Sontag: reborn, journals & notebooks 1947 - 1963
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This, the first of three volumes of Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks, begins with journal entries and early attempts at fiction from her years as a university and graduate student, and ends in 1964, when she was becoming a participant in and observer of the artistic and intellectual life of New York City.
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September 2008, New York
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On photography
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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, they hold an enduring power. In this essential and revelatory volume, Susan Sontag confronts important questions surrounding the power dynamics between photographer and subject, the blurred(...)
On photography
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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, they hold an enduring power. In this essential and revelatory volume, Susan Sontag confronts important questions surrounding the power dynamics between photographer and subject, the blurred boundary between lived events and recreated images, and the desires that lead us to record our lives.
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As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh follows Sontag through the turbulent years of the 1960s—from her trip to Hanoi at the peak of the Vietnam War to her time making films in Sweden—up to 1981 and the beginning of the Reagan era. This is an invaluable record of the inner workings of one of the most inquisitive and analytical thinkers of the twentieth century at the(...)
As consciousness is harnessed to flesh: journals and notebooks, 1964-1980
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As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh follows Sontag through the turbulent years of the 1960s—from her trip to Hanoi at the peak of the Vietnam War to her time making films in Sweden—up to 1981 and the beginning of the Reagan era. This is an invaluable record of the inner workings of one of the most inquisitive and analytical thinkers of the twentieth century at the height of her power. It is also a remarkable document of one individual’s political and moral awakening.
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Against interpretation
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Against interpretation is a selection from Susan Sontag's early writings about the arts and contemporary culture. The book quickly became a modern classic and has had enormous influence here and abroad. As well as the title essay, 'On Style', and the famous 'Notes on Camp', the book includes discussions of such figures as Sartre, Simone Weil, Georg lukacs, Lévi-Strass,(...)
Against interpretation
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Against interpretation is a selection from Susan Sontag's early writings about the arts and contemporary culture. The book quickly became a modern classic and has had enormous influence here and abroad. As well as the title essay, 'On Style', and the famous 'Notes on Camp', the book includes discussions of such figures as Sartre, Simone Weil, Georg lukacs, Lévi-Strass, Artaud, Genet, Brecht, Beckett, Bresson and Godard.
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