Publisher's Synopsis
Este libro reúne los ensayos más celebres de Susan Sontag, una obra imprescindible para el pensamiento contemporáneo.
Publicado por primera vez en 1966, este celebrado libro de Susan Sontag, su primera colección de ensayos, se convirtió rápidamente en un clásico contemporáneo que ha tenido una gran influencia en el pensamiento sobre el arte y la cultura actuales, no solo circunscrita a Estados Unidos.
Además del ensayo que le da tìtulo y el famoso "Notas sobre lo "camp"", Contra la interpretación y otros ensayos incluye textos originales y provocativos sobre Sartre, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, la ciencia ficción, el cine, el psicoanálisis y el pensamiento religioso contemporáneo.
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.
