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Title: Styles of Radical Will by Susan Sontag ISBN: 0-312-42021-8 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 06 March, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Radically Astute
Comment: Long before she entered her current middlebrow-novelist phase, Susan Sontag was one of America's most important critics. A tireless crusader for the idea that the distinction between "high" and "low" culture is best forgotten, and that creating a "new sensibility" which is able to take in everything from pop music to avant-garde art, is essential, Sontag had an incredibly learned, original sensibility that was nevertheless makes for an enjoyable, engaging read.
Styles of Radical Will (originally published in 1969) is, perhaps, Sontag's most triumphantly expansive collection of essays, covering film (Bergman, Godard), politics (the famous "Trip to Hanoi" essay) and philosophy ("'Thinking Against Oneself:' Reflections on Cioran"). Sontag explores each of her subjects in a nuanced, objective, often opinionated, and always lively way.
Nearly all of the essays in Styles of Radical Will stand the test of time because Sontag's approach is irreproachably modern (she is certainly America's mother of modernism/postmodernism) in its absolute refusal to look at her subjects in any easy or expected way; Sontag is not afraid to criticize the banalities of some of our most celebrated culture-heroes, while propounding not what is "...embalmed, immortal, unequivocally (and merely) 'beautiful'," but work that retains its "...youthful power to offend, to appear 'ugly,' irresponsible, frivolous, pretentious, empty." In other words, Sontag looks beyond the immediate, easy, "acceptable" perception.
Styles of Radical Will is a treasure and a touchstone for any reader looking for a deep, invigorating, and unconventional exploration of culture through modern eyes.
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Title: Against Interpretation : And Other Essays by Susan Sontag ISBN: 0312280866 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 25 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag ISBN: 0374248583 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 19 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: On Photography by Susan Sontag ISBN: 0312420099 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 25 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag ISBN: 0312420137 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 25 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays by Susan Sontag ISBN: 0312420080 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 09 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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