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Against Interpretation
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Against Interpretation

And Other Essays
PaperbackPaperback
EUR19,50

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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.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-312-28086-4
Product TypePaperback
BindingPaperback
FormatTrade paperback (US)
PublisherPicador USA
Publishing date25/08/2001
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 140 mm, Height 211 mm, Thickness 22 mm
Weight286 g
Article no.4695266
CatalogsLibri
Data source no.A2268280
Product groupBU580
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