Against Interpretation, and Other Essays by Susan Sontag

Against Interpretation, and Other Essays by Susan 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.

David Rieff is the author of Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir and editor of the journals and notebooks of Susan Sontag, of which two volumes have appeared to date, and of the Library of America companion volume Susan Sontag: Essays of the 1960s & 70s. His many other books include At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention, A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis, The Reproach of Hunger: Food, Justice, and Money in the Twenty-First Century, and In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies.

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ISBN 13	9780385267083
ISBN 10	0385267088
Title	Against Interpretation, and Other Essays
Author	Susan Sontag
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Year published	1990-07-01
Number of pages	304
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