Susan Sontag

Jonathan Cott is the author of numerous books, including most recently Days That I'll Remember: Spending Time with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. He lives in New York City. Susan Sontag gained immediate prominence with the publication of her first book of essays, Against Interpretation, in 1966. She went on to write many more books, including On Photography and Illness as Metaphor which were translated into more than two dozen languages. She died in December, 2004.

出版者:Yale University Press

作者:Jonathan Cott

页数:168

出版时间:2013-10-22

价格:USD 26.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780300189797

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“One of my oldest crusades is against the distinction between thought and feeling, which is really the basis of all anti-intellectual views: the heart and the head, thinking and feeling, fantasy and judgment . . . and I don’t believe it’s true. . . . I have the impression that thinking is a form of feeling and that feeling is a form of thinking.”

Susan Sontag, one of the most internationally renowned and controversial intellectuals of the latter half of the twentieth century, still provokes. In 1978 Jonathan Cott, a founding contributing editor of Rolling Stone magazine, interviewed Sontag first in Paris and later in New York. Only a third of their twelve hours of discussion ever made it to print. Now, more than three decades later, Yale University Press is proud to publish the entire transcript of Sontag’s remarkable conversation, accompanied by Cott’s preface and recollections.

Sontag’s musings and observations reveal the passionate engagement and breadth of her critical intelligence and curiosities at a moment when she was at the peak of her powers. Nearly a decade after her death, these hours of conversation offer a revelatory and indispensable look at the self-described "besotted aesthete" and "obsessed moralist."

“I really believe in history, and that’s something people don’t believe in anymore. I know that what we do and think is a historical creation. . . .We were given a vocabulary that came into existence at a particular moment. So when I go to a Patti Smith concert, I enjoy, participate, appreciate, and am tuned in better because I’ve read Nietzsche.”

“There’s no incompatibility between observing the world and being tuned into this electronic, multimedia, multi-tracked, McLuhanite world and enjoying what can be enjoyed. I love rock and roll. Rock and roll changed my life. . . .You know, to tell you the truth, I think rock and roll is the reason I got divorced. I think it was Bill Haley and the Comets and Chuck Berry that made me decide that I had to get a divorce and leave the academic world and start a new life.”

读后感

相比于另两位西方当代最重要的女性知识分子波伏娃和阿伦特，对于苏珊•桑塔格我了解的并不那么多。所以在翻开这本访谈录之前，看着封面上那幅黑白的撕碎的照片，我幻想着一个锋利、坚硬、饱满的女性会出现在书中，但读过整本书后，我粉碎了幻想中现有的一切。 读访谈录有种...  

“做睿智的人，那是我唯一的存在方式。运用我的心灵，令我感觉积极。这样很好。”苏珊•桑塔格如是说。并且，她也用自己真实的行走践行了这样的言语。在读过的诸多访谈类的书籍中，《我幻想着粉碎现有的一切——苏珊•桑塔格访谈录》无疑是有深度的一本。在很大程度上...  

对于不熟悉桑塔格的读者来说，乍一看这具有蛊惑性的书名，以为桑塔格和这世界有多大仇，非要粉碎现有的一切不可。只有完整的看罢全书，稍微了解她的为人处事之后，才会明白，“粉碎”这句不是她作为一个勇往无前的斗士对于这个世界的战斗口号式的宣言，而更多的是她对于自...  

去读一本一个完全不了解、不认识的人的访谈录，是件挺奇怪的事。她是谁？她在哪里？她做过什么？她有过哪些成绩？这些都像迷团扑面而来。但这丝毫不影响阅读这本书的兴趣，也不妨碍阅读带来的快乐。 通读完全书，我终于对她有了一些了解，这些了解像一幅朦胧画，远看有影像，...  

用户评价

不厚的一本小书 刚刚读完 喜欢Sontag的用词 简单又击中要害

"I hate seeing myself as a victim. It was my choice, and I don't like blaming other people because it's so much easier to change oneself than to change other people." That's why I adore this woman so much!

有很多片段做了笔记，最开头关于在癌症中不希望将自己作为被害人的那些，其实作为一个癌症患者的亲近人，也很有感触。对话和作品是两回事。在行动上很有指导意义的是，事业生活的分离，你不能一边在社交中游走，一边期待专注于写作研究。另外，对于你不认同的亲友叨叨，要选择性耳聋而非争辩和插科打诨

木心所说的溯源 她也提起 觉得自己和她的想法等等太相似了

"There should always be freelance people who, however quixotic it may be, are trying to lop off a couple of more heads, trying to destroy hallucination and falsehood and demagogy - and making things more complicated, because there's an inevitable drift towards making things more simple."