Against Interpretation

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Against Interpretation and Other Essays is a collection of essays by Susan Sontag which was published in 1966. It includes some of Sontag's best-known works, including "On Style", "Notes on 'Camp'", and the title essay "Against Interpretation". The latter famously finished with the words, "in place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art".

The 1990 edition of the collection is available from Anchor Books (ISBN 0312280866).

Contents

• Against interpretation
• On style
• The artist as exemplary sufferer
• Simone Weil
• Camus' Notebooks
• Michel Leiris' Manhood
• The anthropologist as hero
• The literary criticism of Georg Lukacs
• Sartre's Saint Genet
• Nathalie Sarraute and the novel
• Ionesco
• Reflections on The Deputy
• The death of tragedy,
• Going to theater, etc.
• Marat / Sade / Artaud
• Spiritual style in the films of Robert Bresson
• Godard's Vivre Sa Vie
• The imagination of disaster
• Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures
• Resnais' Muriel
• A note on novels and films
• Piety without content
• Psychoanalysis and Norman O. Brown's Life Against Death
• Happenings: an art of radical juxtaposition
• Notes on "Camp"
• One culture and the new sensibility
• Afterword: Thirty Years Later

External links

• Page for Against Interpretation on official Sontag site
• Louise Norlie, For and Against Interpretation essay in response to Susan Sontag's Against Interpretation