As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
by:
Susan Sontag (author)
David Rieff (author)
This, the second of three volumes of Susan Sontag’s journals and notebooks, begins where the first volume left off, in the middle of the 1960s. It traces and documents Sontag’s evolution from fledgling participant in the artistic and intellectual world of New York City to world-renowned critic...
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This, the second of three volumes of Susan Sontag’s journals and notebooks, begins where the first volume left off, in the middle of the 1960s. It traces and documents Sontag’s evolution from fledgling participant in the artistic and intellectual world of New York City to world-renowned critic and dominant force in the world of ideas with the publication of the groundbreaking Against Interpretation in 1966.As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh follows Sontag through the turbulent years of the 1960s—from her trip to Hanoi at the peak of the Vietnam War to her time making films in Sweden—up to 1981 and the beginning of the Reagan era. This is an invaluable record of the inner workings of one of the most inquisitive and analytical thinkers of the twentieth century at the height of her power. It is also a remarkable document of one individual’s political and moral awakening.
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9780374100766 (0374100764)
ASIN: 374100764
Publish date: April 10th 2012
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 523
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
Literature,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
20th Century,
Feminism,
Philosophy,
Biography Memoir,
Diary,
Journal
Series: Journals of Susan Sontag (#2)
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