Susan Sontag

Una introducci n concisa y brillante a la obra de Susan Sontag sobre las mujeres, que re ne sus primeros ensayos, varios de ellos in ditos en espa ol, relativos al envejecimiento, la igualdad, la belleza, la sexualidad y el fascismo. Susan Sontag fue una de las pensadoras m s formidables, originales e influyentes del siglo pasado. «Las ideas m s interesantes son las herej as , sosten a. Y en efecto: sus escritos descartan lo trillado y se niegan a seguir las l neas partidistas. De las mujeres ofrece siete ensayos y debates sobre una amplia gama de asuntos: los desaf os y humillaciones a las que se enfrentan las mujeres a medida que envejecen; la relaci n entre la liberaci n de la mujer y la lucha de clases; la belleza, que Sontag llama «esa p cima demasiado pesada de tantos consabidos opuestos ; el feminismo; el fascismo; y el cine. En conjunto, estos an lisis, reacios a la f cil categorizaci n, muestran no s lo su curiosidad implacable, su precisi n hist rica y su vigor pol tico, sino la inimitable mente de Sontag en acci n. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A concise and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag's writings on women, bringing together her early essays--several of them never before published in English--on aging, equality, beauty, sexuality, and fascism. Susan Sontag was one of the most formidable, original, and influential thinkers of the 20th century. "The most interesting ideas are heresies," she claimed--and indeed, her work rejects convention and refuses to follow partisan lines. On Women presents seven essays and debates on a wide range of topics: the challenges and humiliations women face as they age; the connection between women's liberation and class struggle; beauty, which Sontag describes as "that overly potent potion of so many familiar opposites"; feminism; fascism, and cinema. Together, these analyses--resistant to an easy categorization--reveal not only her relentless curiosity, historical precision, and political vigor, but also the unmistakable brilliance of Sontag's mind at work.

El libro m s emblem tico de una escritora comprometida con los temas m s candentes de su tiempo y que cierra con un interrogante: hasta qu punto puede mentir una c mara?Sobre la fotograf a, publicado por primera vez en 1973, supuso un trabajo revolucionario en la cr tica fotogr fica. Con l, Susan Sontag plante cuestiones ineludibles, en el plano moral y est tico, acerca de esta forma art stica. Hay fotograf as en todas partes; tienen la potestad de impactar, idealizar o seducir, pueden provocar la nostalgia o pueden servir de recordatorio, y se erigen en prueba contra nosotros o en el medio para identificarnos.En estos seis penetrantes cap tulos, Sontag se pregunta c mo afecta la omnipresencia de estas im genes a nuestro modo de ver el mundo, y c mo hemos llegado a depender de ellas para confeccionar las nociones de realidad y autoridad. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism. One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, Susan Sontag's 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."

Este libro re ne los ensayos m s celebres de Susan Sontag, una obra imprescindible para el pensamiento contempor neo.Publicado por primera vez en 1966, este celebrado libro de Susan Sontag, su primera colecci n de ensayos, se convirti r pidamente en un cl sico contempor neo que ha tenido una gran influencia en el pensamiento sobre el arte y la cultura actuales, no solo circunscrita a Estados Unidos.Adem s del ensayo que le da t tulo y el famoso "Notas sobre lo "camp"", Contra la interpretaci n y otros ensayos incluye textos originales y provocativos sobre Sartre, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, la ciencia ficci n, el cine, el psicoan lisis y el pensamiento religioso contempor neo. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION 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.

A brilliant, clear-eyed consideration of the visual representation of violence in our culture--its ubiquity, meanings, and effects. Considered one of the greatest critics of her generation, Susan Sontag followed up her monumental On Photography with an extended study of human violence, reflecting on a question first posed by Virginia Woolf in Three Guineas: How in your opinion are we to prevent war? "For a long time some people believed that if the horror could be made vivid enough, most people would finally take in the outrageousness, the insanity of war." One of the distinguishing features of modern life is that it supplies countless opportunities for regarding (at a distance, through the medium of photography) horrors taking place throughout the world. But are viewers inured--or incited--to violence by the depiction of cruelty? Is the viewer's perception of reality eroded by the daily barrage of such images? What does it mean to care about the suffering of others far away? First published more than twenty years after her now-classic book On Photography, which changed how we understand the very condition of being modern, Regarding the Pain of Others challenges our thinking not only about the uses and means of images, but about how war itself is waged (and understood) in our time, the limits of sympathy, and the obligations of conscience.

Susan Sontag's celebrated essays on cancer and AIDS now available in one volume.In 1978, Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as "one of the most liberating books of its time." A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding cancer, Sontag shows cancer for what it is--just a disease. Cancer, she argues, is not a curse, not a punishment, certainly not an embarrassment; and it is highly curable, if good treatment is followed. Almost a decade later, with the outbreak of a new, stigmatized disease replete with mystifications and punitive metaphors, Sontag wrote a sequel to Illness as Metaphor, extending the argument of the earlier book to the AIDS pandemic. These two essays now published together, Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors, have been translated into many languages and continue to have an enormous influence on the thinking of medical professionals and, above all, on the lives of many thousands of patients and caregivers.

Fotografiet er en elegisk kunstart, en tusmørkekunst. Susan Sontag undersøger fotografiets potentiale som dokumentation, vidnesbyrd, kunst, manipulationsredskab og produkt – virkeligheden indfanget i en firkantet miniversion. Om fotografi er en klassiker inden for kulturkritikken, der giver en dybdegående analyse af billedkulturen og forholder sig kritisk og undersøgende til den forbrugslogik, som fotografiet blev, og fortsat er, en manifestation af. I et kapitalistisk samfund er der brug for billeder, der kan informere og kontinuerligt levere underholdning. Sontags blik på det stimulerende billedsamfund fremstår i dag mere aktuelt end nogensinde, når vi oversvømmes af billeder, både som selvfremstilling og som dokumentation af krig og klimaforandringer. Billedets anliggender er ikke længere blot et spørgsmål for kunsten, men et spørgsmål om magt og politik. At tage billeder er at erobre og sige: ’jeg var der’ – ’jeg findes’. Susan Sontag (1933–2004) var en markant skikkelse i det 20. århundredes intellektuelle landskab – som forfatter, kulturkritiker, filmskaber – og en central stemme i den amerikanske avantgarde og venstrefløj. Hun blev kendt for sin skarpe og engagerede tænk­ning, der formede tidens debat om kunst, politik, køn og samfund – en tænkning, der stadig vækker genklang i dag. Med essays som Om kvinder, Imod fortolkning og Noter om camp, satte hun spørgsmålstegn ved, hvordan vi forstår og oplever kunst, og udfordrede samtidens kulturelle dogmer. Sontag var på en gang kritisk over for overfortolkning og samtidig dybt optaget af at forstå verden og dens kunstproduktion. Hendes essays balancerer mellem lidenskab og intellekt, mellem æstetik og etik. Hun engagerede sig i tidens store spørgsmål – både med pennen og med sin tilstedeværelse i verdens brænd­punkter.

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismA new edition of Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography--its problems, politics, and possibilities. "To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed," Sontag writes in the opening pages of On Photography, which went on to influence generations of theorists, film critics, and readers everywhere. Originally published in the 1970s, her groundbreaking collection remains uncannily prescient and profoundly precise. With her singular searching eye, and her refusal to buckle under received wisdom, she presents a rousing critique of the functions of imagery--to seduce, to advertise, to evoke, to commemorate, to conspire, to conceal--across six essays. The result is a damning portrait of the ways we use imagery to manufacture reality and authority that feels as if it were written today.

A reissue of Susan Sontag's classic first collection, featuring some of her most beloved writing--on art, life, camp, and criticism--that cemented her legacy as one of the brightest thinkers of, and beyond, her generation. Susan Sontag is widely regarded as one of the most formidable, original, and influential writers of the last century. Against Interpretation is a modern classic, her first-ever collection and the work that launched her storied career when it was published in 1966. It has influenced generations of readers, and still contains some of her best-known essays, including "Notes on Camp," "Against Interpretation," and a dazzling range of, well, interpretations. Grand in scope--ranging from philosophy to film to religion to psychoanalysis--and short in length, this pocket-sized, pithy, and profound book introduces "a larger-than-life intellectual powerhouse" (Leslie Jamison).

Vtoroj tom dnevnikov amerikanskoj myslitelnitsy Sjuzen Sontag (1933-2004), podgotovlennyj k publikatsii ee synom Devidom Riffom, opisyvaet nju-jorkskuju zhizn na rubezhe 1970-kh godov: pokhody po vystavkam i teatram, obschenie s takimi khudozhnikami, kak Pol Tek i Dzhasper Dzhons, druzhbu s Iosifom Brodskim. V dnevnikakh Sontag razmyshljaet o sovremennom iskusstve i kempe, vposledstvii eti zametki sostavjat osnovu sbornikov statej "Protiv interpretatsii" (1966) i "Obraztsy bezogljadnoj voli" (1969). Ona prodolzhaet uporno sostavljat spiski knig i filmov, uvlekaetsja fotografiej, svjaz kotoroj s zhivopisju i kino pytaetsja opredelit v esse "O fotografii" (1977). V eti gody Sontag mnogo puteshestvuet po Evrope i poseschaet Marokko, gde togda zhili amerikanskie ekspatrianty. Ne chuzhdy ej i politicheskie voprosy - ona mnogo pishet o vojne vo Vetname i dazhe otpravljaetsja tuda v sostave gruppy antivoennykh aktivistov.

Om kvinner samler Susan Sontags uredde og skarpsindige essays om kvinner. De utgjør en viktig del av forfatterskapet hennes, men de har hittil ikke fått den oppmerksomheten de fortjener. Sontag analyserer i disse tekstene politikken og estetikken rundt det å være kvinne. Essayene ble skrevet på høyden av 1970-åras kvinnebevegelse og er fortsatt påfallende relevante. De befinner seg ofte i samklang med vår egen tids diskusjoner, men står andre ganger i sterk motsetning til dem. Sontag er uansett alltid karakteristisk original, både når hun undersøker dobbeltmoralen i kvinners aldring, hvorvidt skjønnhet hos kvinner er en kilde til makt eller en ulempe, sammenhengen mellom sosialisme og feminisme, eller den kontroversielle tyske filmskaperen Leni Riefenstahl. Susan Sontag (1933–2004) var en amerikansk forfatter, aktivist og kritiker. Hun er særlig kjent for sine betraktninger om fotografi, film, sykdom og krig. Hennes Tekster om film kom ut på Existenz forlag i 2022.

”Det hela började med en essä kring några av de problem – estetiska och moraliska – som framkommit av att vi har fotografiska bilder överallt omkring oss, men ju mer jag funderade på vad fotografier är, desto mer komplexa och tankeväckande blev de.” Susan Sontags Om fotografi (1977) är ett av 1900-talets viktigaste bidrag till essäkonsten, en levande klassiker med relevans också för vår digitala bildkultur. I denna nyöversatta utgåva presenteras boken tillsammans med syskonessän Att betrakta andras lidande (2003). Tillsammans visar de på Sontags intellektuella bredd och utveckling: från en primärt filosofisk hållning, till en etisk och politisk läsning av fotokonstens uppfordrande väsen.

‘A brilliant, glittering intelligence’ Sunday TimesOn 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 attention it deservesWritten during the height of second-wave feminism, Sontag's essays remain strikingly relevant to our contemporary conversations. At times powerfully in sync and at others powerfully at odds with them, they are always characteristically original in their examinations of the 'biological division of labour', the double-standard for ageing and the dynamics of women's power and powerlessness.As Merve Emre writes in her introduction, On Women offers us 'the spectacle of a ferocious intellect setting itself to the task at hand: to articulate the politics and aesthetics of being a woman in the United States, the Americas and the world.'‘Boldly provocative’ iNews‘On Women demonstrates a powerful mind and equally forceful personality’ The Herald

A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag's writing on women, gathering early essays on aging, equality, beauty, sexuality, and fascism Susan Sontag was one of the most formidable, original, and influential thinkers of the last century. "The most interesting ideas are heresies," she remarked, and indeed, her writing rejects the familiar and refuses party lines. 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.

La obra que consagr a Susan Sontag como gran novelista: una reflexi n sobre la sociedad del siglo XVII a partir del tri ngulo amoroso entre William Hamilton -embajador brit nico en N poles-, su joven esposa y el almirante Nelson, quien derrot a Napole n. Ambientada en el N poles del siglo XVIII y basada en las vidas de sir William Hamilton, su famosa mujer, Emma, y lord Nelson, acompa ados por muchas de las grandes figuras del momento, esta novela hist rica poco convencional, firmada por una de las grandes pensadoras del siglo, nos habla del sexo y la revoluci n, del destino natural, del arte y de la obsesi n del coleccionista, pero, sobre todo, del amor. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The work that consecrated Susan Sontag as a great novelist. The Volcano Lover follows the fortunes of a British ambassador, the ravishing woman he marries, and the young British admiral with whom she falls in love with. Set in 18th-century Naples and based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his celebrated wife Emma, and Lord Nelson, the novel is peopled with many of the great figures of the day. This unconventional, best-selling historical romance from the National Book Award-winning author of In America touches on themes of sex and revolution, the fate of nature, art, and the collector's obsessions, and, above all, love.

Susan Sontags «Tekster om film» inneholder klassiske, dyptpløyende tekster om europeiske regissører som Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Bresson og Ingmar Bergman, men også kulturkritiske diskusjoner av filmkultur, relasjonen mellom filmisk og teatral estetikk, og mediets og kinoens stilling i det 21. århundret. «Hvis filmen skal gjenoppstå, kan det bare være hvis en ny type kjærlighet til film blir født, en cine-love.» - Susan Sontag Susan Sontag (1933-2004) var en amerikansk kulturkritiker, essayist og romanforfatter. Bokserien Existenz Film presenterer filosofiske og litterære tekster som skal bidra til diskusjonen om film som medium og løfte filmen inn i den større samtalen om kultur. «Tekster om film» er første bok i serien.