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As Consciousness Is Harnessed To Flesh
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 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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