Against Interpretation and Other Essays

Published in 1966, this celebrated book - Sontag's first collection of essays - quickly became a modern classic, and has had enormous influence in America and abroad on thinking about the arts and contemporary culture. As well as the title essay and the famous "Notes on Camp", Against Interpretation includes original, provocative, and impassioned discussions on Sartre, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, science-fiction movies, psychoanalysis, and contemporary religious thinking. This edition includes a new afterword.