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Against Interpretation : and Other Essays by Susan Sontag, Tavia Gilbert is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Against Interpretation : and Other Essays about?
<p>First published in 1966, this celebrated book—Sontag's first collection of essays—quickly became a modern classic, and has had an enormous influence in America and abroad on thinking about the arts and contemporary culture. As well as the title essay and the famous "Notes on Camp," <i>Against Interpretation</i> includes original and provocative discussions of Sartre, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, science-fiction movies, psychoanalysis, and contemporary religious thinking. This edition features a new afterword by Sontag.</p> <p>This is a selection from Sontag's early critical writings, including discussions on such figures as Sarte, Levi-Strauss, Beckett, Antonioni, and Godard. </p>
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Susan Sontag, Tavia Gilbert
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Published
- 1966
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780440500384
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, History
- Rating
- 4.11 / 5 (4,522 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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