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29 produkter
Susan Sontag: The Collected Essays
Inbunden, 2026
914 kr
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The Library of America presents its authoritative two-volume edition of America's most provocative critic in a deluxe collector's boxed set. Includes Against Interpretation , On Photography , Regarding the Pain of Others , and 6 other classic Sontag collections. Susan Sontag was an incandescent …
As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh
Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
Häftad, 2013
435 kr
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Crimes of War 2.0
What the Public Should Know
Av Anthony Dworkin, Roy Gutman m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
243 kr
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Originally published in 1999, this A-to-Z guidebook of wartime atrocities has received worldwide acclaim and has been translated into eleven languages. Now substantially updated, with sixteen new entries, this concise guide to the broken rules of war remains unique and essential. More than 140 …
Reborn
Early Diaries 1947-1963
Häftad, 2009
141 kr
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'In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could do to any person; I create myself'Intimate, vulnerable and unsparing, Reborn bears witness to the evolution of Susan Sontag.With entries dating from 1947-1963, the first instalment from Susan Sontag's diaries charts her ascension …
Robert Oppenheimer
The Sphinx Without a Secret
Av David Rieff
Inbunden, 2026
350 kr
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An original perspective on the father of the atomic bomb, shedding new light on Oppenheimer’s personality and psychologyBoth to his contemporaries and to posterity J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967) has gone down in history as the “father” of the atomic bomb. He was a brilliant theoretical …
In Praise of Forgetting
Historical Memory and Its Ironies
Av David Rieff
Häftad, 2017
159 kr
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A leading contrarian thinker explores the ethical paradox at the heart of history's woundsThe conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in George Santayana’s celebrated phrase, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Today, the consensus that it is moral to …
Reborn
Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
Häftad, 2009
321 kr
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"In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself." The first of three volumes of Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks, Reborn (1947-1963) reveals one of the most important thinkers and writers of the twentieth century, fully engaged in the act of …
Los Angeles
Capital of the Third World
Av David Rieff
Häftad, 1992
266 kr
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Writing before the riots of 1992, Rieff found not a city of dreams but a city of bitter contradictions. A city that, like the United States itself, was being transformed by immigrants and refugees from Latin America and East Asia from an extension of Europe to a diverse patchwork of the peoples of …
Exile
Cuba in the Heart of Miami
Av David Rieff
Häftad, 1994
247 kr
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This is a fascinating portrait of Miami's Cuban population, the most successful group of immigrants to settle in the United States since the Jews of the nineteenth century. David Rieff has provided an engrossing look at a group exiled from its homeland, showing how America has affected these …
At the Point Of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention
Av David Rieff
Häftad, 2006
267 kr
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Writing from the front lines of the hot wars of the post-Cold War world -- the Balkans, Africa, the Middle East, and most recently Afghanistan and Iraq for The New York Times Magazine -- David Rieff witnessed firsthand most of the armed interventions waged by the West or the United Nations in the …
Swimming in a Sea of Death
Av David Rieff
Häftad, 2008
231 kr
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Both a memoir and an investigation, Swimming in a Sea of Death is David Rieff's loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan Sontag, and her final battle with cancer. Rieff's brave, passionate, and unsparing witness of the last nine months of her life, from her initial diagnosis to her death, is …
On Women
Ljudbok, 2023
328 kr
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A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on aging, equality, beauty, sexuality, and fascism Susan Sontag was one of the most formidable, original, and influential thinkers of the last century. “The most interesting ideas are heresies,” she …
On Women
Häftad, 2023
266 kr
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A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on aging, equality, beauty, sexuality, and fascism Susan Sontag was one of the most formidable, original, and influential thinkers of the last century. “The most interesting ideas are heresies,” she …
On Women
E-bok, 2023
178 kr
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A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on aging, equality, beauty, sexuality, and fascism Susan Sontag was one of the most formidable, original, and influential thinkers of the last century. “The most interesting ideas are heresies,” she …
Swimming in a Sea of Death
A Son''s Memoir
Av David Rieff
E-bok, 2008
146 kr
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Both a memoir and an investigation, Swimming in a Sea of Death is David Rieff''s loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan Sontag, and her final battle with cancer. Rieff''s brave, passionate, and unsparing witness of the last nine months of her life, from her initial diagnosis to her death, …
The Reproach of Hunger: Food, Justice, and Money in the Twenty-First Century
Av David Rieff
Häftad, 2016
234 kr
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Los Angeles
Av David Rieff
E-bok, 2013
186 kr
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David Rieff looks at a city that was long the epitome of the American Dream and is now, for many, the emblem of the American urban nightmare. Writing before the riots of 1992, Rieff found not a city of dreams but a city of bitter contradictions. A city that, like the United States itself, was being …
Reproach of Hunger
Food, Justice, and Money in the Twenty-First Century
Av David Rieff
E-bok, 2015
78 kr
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Hailed as “invaluable…a substantial work of political thought,” ( New Statesman ) in a groundbreaking report, based on years of reporting, David Rieff assesses whether ending extreme poverty and widespread hunger is truly within our reach, as is increasingly promised. Can we provide enough food for …
As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh
Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
E-bok, 2012
211 kr
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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 …
At the Point of a Gun
Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention
Av David Rieff
E-bok, 2013
196 kr
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Veteran journalist David Rieff’s essays draw a searing portrait of what happens when the grandiose schemes of policymakers and human rights activists go horribly wrong in the field. Writing for publications ranging from the Wall Street Journal to The Nation to France’s Le Monde , David Rieff …
Divorcing
Häftad, 2020
203 kr
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Now back in print for the first time since 1969, a stunning novel about childhood, marriage, and divorce by one of the most interesting minds of the twentieth century. Dream and reality overlap in Divorcing , a book in which divorce is not just a question of a broken marriage but names a rift that …
Reproach of Hunger
Food, Justice and Money in the 21st Century
Av David Rieff
E-bok, 2015
170 kr
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In 2000 the world''s leaders and experts agreed that the eradication of hunger was the essential task for the new millennium. Yet in the last decade the price of wheat, soya and rice have spiraled, seen by many as the cause of widening poverty gap and political unrest from the Arab Spring to Latin …
Swimming In A Sea Of Death
A Son's Memoir
Av David Rieff
Häftad, 2009
102 kr
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In spring 2004, Susan Sontag was diagnosed with the incurable blood cancer. She had a huge appetite for experience, and a wild, extravagant desire to live. Rieff writes movingly about being by her side during that last year and at her death, and about his own contradictory emotions: his guilt both …
Desire and Fate
Av David Rieff
Häftad, 2024
243 kr
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“Ours is an ill-mannered society that wears those bad manners as a badge not just of its moral rectitude but of its millenarian ethical ambitions. At the same time, in no society in recent memory have people been so easily affronted.”At a time when political writing and cultural criticism have come …
Susan Sontag: Essays of the 1960s & 70s (LOA #246)
Against Interpretation / Styles of Radical Will / On Photography / Illness as Metaphor / Uncollected Essays
Av Susan Sontag, David Rieff m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
704 kr
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With the publication of her first book of criticism, Against Interpretation, in 1966, Susan Sontag placed herself at the forefront of an era of cultural and political transformation. 'What is important now,' she wrote, 'is to recover our senses... In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of …
