Silent Aesthetics (Selected Essays of Susan Sontag)

Author: (American) Susan Sontag, translated by Huang Mei et al
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Publishing Date: 2006-06-01
Features: Susan Sontag is in the midst of change. She was one of the pioneers in focusing on mass popular culture, yet in her later years, she occasionally declared her love for classical literary works. She once strongly advocated for attention to form and championed "the pornography of art," but in the past decade or two, she began to reiterate "meaning" and "truth," bluntly opposing nihilism and "gradually returning to the serious stance of enlightenment intellectuals." This book collects 14 important representative works of Susan Sontag from various periods of her life. Now that Susan Sontag has left this world, she can no longer provide groundbreaking answers for humanity. However, we cannot avoid these questions. Because she has become a "star author" in our midst. Because these issues are not only related to the history and present of Americans but also to the present and future of Chinese people. This book includes 14 essays, featuring some important prose works written by the author during different periods, offering a glimpse for those new to Susan Sontag.