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AS CONSCIOUSNESS IS HARNESSED TO FLESH By: Susan Sontag
Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
April 2012
On Sale: April 10, 2012
544 pages ISBN: 0374100764 EAN: 9780374100766 Kindle: B005XMKAIC Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
This, the second of three volumes of Susan Sontagβs journals and notebooks, begins where the first volume left off, in the middle of the 1960s. It traces and documents Sontagβs 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 1960sβfrom her trip to Hanoi at the peak of the Vietnam War to her time making films in Swedenβup 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 individualβs political and moral awakening.
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