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.
“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.”
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這是一本與我以往讀過的書大有區彆的書,蘇珊•桑塔格,她到底是一個什麼樣的人?我先是查瞭她的數據,因為之前對她幾乎不瞭解,而這本書激發瞭我對她的生平的好奇。得知她是一個有著敏銳洞察力和廣博知識的作傢,她創作瞭大量的評論性作品。隻是她晚年得瞭癌癥,因為得病,...
評分喬納森•科特 政治理論傢漢娜•阿倫特(Hannah Arendt)寫道:“唯一適應精神生活的隱喻,就是感受到在生活。沒有呼吸,人類的身體就死亡瞭;沒有思考,人類的心靈就死亡瞭。”蘇珊•桑塔格同意這種觀點。在她的日記和隨筆第二捲(《意識聽命於肉體》)中,她說:“做一個...
評分對於不熟悉桑塔格的讀者來說,乍一看這具有蠱惑性的書名,以為桑塔格和這世界有多大仇,非要粉碎現有的一切不可。隻有完整的看罷全書,稍微瞭解她的為人處事之後,纔會明白,“粉碎”這句不是她作為一個勇往無前的鬥士對於這個世界的戰鬥口號式的宣言,而更多的是她對於自...
評分喬納森•科特 政治理論傢漢娜•阿倫特(Hannah Arendt)寫道:“唯一適應精神生活的隱喻,就是感受到在生活。沒有呼吸,人類的身體就死亡瞭;沒有思考,人類的心靈就死亡瞭。”蘇珊•桑塔格同意這種觀點。在她的日記和隨筆第二捲(《意識聽命於肉體》)中,她說:“做一個...
評分喬納森•科特 政治理論傢漢娜•阿倫特(Hannah Arendt)寫道:“唯一適應精神生活的隱喻,就是感受到在生活。沒有呼吸,人類的身體就死亡瞭;沒有思考,人類的心靈就死亡瞭。”蘇珊•桑塔格同意這種觀點。在她的日記和隨筆第二捲(《意識聽命於肉體》)中,她說:“做一個...
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"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!
評分不厚的一本小書 剛剛讀完 喜歡Sontag的用詞 簡單又擊中要害
評分最近空閑在傢混吃等死,最有效率的一件事就是認認真真地讀完瞭這本書。這篇訪談對瞭解桑塔格很有幫助,讀完之後,無論是從智識上還是情感上,我都更加欣賞她瞭。"besotted asethete & obsessed moralist", thinking/feeling, autodidact, cancer survivor, fight against falsehoods
評分"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!
評分最近空閑在傢混吃等死,最有效率的一件事就是認認真真地讀完瞭這本書。這篇訪談對瞭解桑塔格很有幫助,讀完之後,無論是從智識上還是情感上,我都更加欣賞她瞭。"besotted asethete & obsessed moralist", thinking/feeling, autodidact, cancer survivor, fight against falsehoods
Susan Sontag 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載