Susan Sontag presents the true significance of disease as it has affected cultures throughout the centuries.
Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. Her non-fiction works include Against Interpretation, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, AIDS and its Metaphors and Regarding the Pain of Others. She is also the author of four novels, a collection of stories and several plays. Her books are translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work, and in 2003 she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. She died in December 2004. Penguin will publish Sontag on Film in October 2016.
"Susan Sontag's "Illness as Metaphor "was the first to point out
the accusatory side of the metaphors of empowerment that seek to
enlist the patient's will to resist disease. It is largely as a
result of her work that the how-to health books avoid the
blame-ridden term 'cancer personality' and speak more soothingly of
'disease-producing lifestyles' . . . "AIDS and Its Metaphors
"extends her critique of cancer metaphors to the metaphors of dread
surrounding the AIDS virus. Taken together, the two essays are an
exemplary demonstration of the power of the intellect in the face
of the lethal metaphors of fear."--Michael Ignatieff, "The New
Republic"
"Susan Sontag's "Illness as Metaphor was the first to point out the
accusatory side of the metaphors of empowerment that seek to enlist
the patient's will to resist disease. It is largely as a result of
her work that the how-to health books avoid the blame-ridden term
'cancer personality' and speak more soothingly of
'disease-producing lifestyles' . . . "AIDS and Its Metaphors
extends her critique of cancer metaphors to the metaphors of dread
surrounding the AIDS virus. Taken together, the two essays are an
exemplary demonstration of the power of the intellect in the face
of the lethal metaphors of fear."--Michael Ignatieff, "The New
Republic
"Susan Sontag's "Illness as Metaphor was the first to point out the
accusatory side of the metaphors of empowerment that seek to enlist
the patient's will to resist disease. It is largely as a result of
her work that the how-to health books avoid the blame-ridden term
'cancer personality' and speak more soothingly of
'disease-producing lifestyles' . . . "AIDS and Its Metaphors
extends her critique of cancer metaphors to the metaphors of dread
surrounding the AIDS virus. Taken together, the two essays are an
exemplary demonstration of the power of the intellect in the face
of the lethal metaphors of fear."--Michael Ignatieff, "The New
Republic
"Susan Sontag's "Illness as Metaphor "was the first to point out
the accusatory side of the metaphors of empowerment that seek to
enlist the patient's will to resist disease. It is largely as a
result of her work that the how-to health books avoid the
blame-ridden term 'cancer personality' and speak more soothingly of
'disease-producing lifestyles' . . . "AIDS and Its Metaphors
"extends her critique of cancer metaphors to the metaphors of dread
surrounding the AIDS virus. Taken together, the two essays are an
exemplary demonstration of the power of the intellect in the face
of the lethal metaphors of fear."--Michael Ignatieff, "The New
Republic"
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