Styles of Radical Will

Sontag, Susan

ISBN 10: 1538537389 ISBN 13: 9781538537381

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks, 2018

Synopsis

Styles of Radical Will, Susan Sontag's second collection of essays, extends the investigations she undertook in Against Interpretation with essays on film, literature, politics, and a groundbreaking study of pornography. In ''The Aesthetics of Silence,'' Sontag examines how silence mediates the role of art as a form of spirituality in an increasingly secular culture. ''The Pornographic Imagination'' attempts to define and understand the genre of pornography. ''What's Happening in America'' muses on the state of the country in 1966 when the essay was written, discussing history, politics, and consumerism. Other essays in Syles of Radical Will are '' Thinking Against Oneself: Reflections on Cioran,'' ''Theatre and Film,'' ''Bergman's Persona,'' ''Godard,'' and ''Trip to Hanoi.''

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About the Author

Susan Sontag (1933-2004) was born in Manhattan and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard, and Oxford. She is the author of four novels, a collection of stories, several plays, and six books of essays, among them Against Interpretation and On Photography. Her books are translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work, and in 2003 she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.

Edition details

• Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1538537389
• ISBN 13: 9781538537381
• Binding: Audio CD
• Language: English