The pain of Susan Sontag

Global Society

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 369-380

  Chan, Stephen ^a  

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BIOGRAPHY; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; KNOWLEDGE; MORALITY; POLITICAL CONFLICT;

EID: 77954500354     PISSN: 13600826     EISSN: 1469798X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2010.485559     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. The gurney shots, and some others, were reproduced in Annie Leibovitz, "My Time with Susan", The Guardian (Weekend) (7 October 2006). The best shot of Sontag as a young woman was by Henri Cartier-Bresson, but the one by Peter Hujar is the pinup wallpaper on innumerable computers.
2. Susan Sontag, "Some Thoughts on the Right Way (for us) to Love the Cuban Revolution", Ramparts (April 1969).
3. Susan Sontag, "Notes on 'Camp'", in Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1967).
4. See, for example, Edward Field, The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005).
5. This appeared in France in 1955. The English edition is Claude Levi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques (New York: Atheneum, 1973).
6. Sontag, "The Anthropologist as Hero", in Sontag, Against Interpretation, op. cit., p. 81.
7. This reading rather underplayed the structuralist patterns and search for the underlying accounts of thought which Levi-Strauss sought to illustrate in his work.
8. Claude Levi-Strauss, Anthropology & Myth, Lectures 1951-1982 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1984). 9.
9. "Simone Weil", in Sontag, Against Interpretation, op. cit., p. 49.
10. David McLellan, Utopian Pessimist: The Life and Thought of Simone Weil (New York: Poseidon, 1990).
11. The champion of which, in IR, is Mervyn Frost, Towards a Normative Theory of International Relations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986). But this is the same Hegel expounded in almost all contemporary political philosophy.
12. See Michael O. Hardimon, Hegel's Social Philosophy: The Project of Reconciliation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
13. Allen W. Wood, Hegel's Ethical Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990). Sontag will have none of this.
14. "The Pornographic Imagination", in Susan Sontag, Styles of Radical Will (New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1969), p. 69.
15. "Trip to Hanoi", in Sontag, Styles of Radical Will, op. cit., p. 270.
16. David Campbell, National Deconstruction: Violence, Identity and Justice in Bosnia (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998).
17. One could also include Elizabeth Dauphinee, The Ethics of Researching War: Looking for Bosnia (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007)
18. Lene Hansen, Security as Practice: Discourse Analysis and the Bosnian War (London: Routledge, 2006).
19. Stephen Chan, "A Problem for IR: How Shall We Narrate the Saga of the Bestial Man?", Global Society, Vol. 17, No. 4 (2003), pp. 385-414.
20. Joe Sacco, The Fixer: A Story from Sarajevo (London: Jonathan Cape, 2004).
21. Gojko Beric, Letters to the Celestial Serbs (London: Saqi Books, 2001).
22. Alain Finkielkraut, The Crime of Being Born (Zagreb: Ceres, 1997).
23. Susan Sontag, "Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo", in Susan Sontag, Where the Stress Falls (London: Jonathan Cape, 2002), p. 319.
24. This was marked by her books. Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor (New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1978); and the only-one-step-removed meditation.
25. Susan Sontag, AIDS and its Metaphors (London: Allen Lane, 1989) - one step removed because the suffering, anxiety and senses of decay, bodily rebellion against the will, and death are there as in cases of cancer.
26. Susan Sontag, Under the Sign of Saturn (New York: Picador, 2002). This was originally published in 1980, as her third book of collected essays.
27. Sontag, "'There' and 'Here'", in Sontag, Where the Stress Falls, op. cit., p. 323.
28. Ibid., p. 328.
29. Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2003).
30. Susan Sontag, On Photography (London: Penguin, 1979).
31. Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas (Oxford: Oxford World Classics, 1998).
32. Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others, op. cit., p. 113.
33. Susan Sontag, "Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo", in Sontag, Where the Stress Falls, op. cit., p. 319.
34. Susan Sontag, "Answers to a Questionnaire", in Sontag, Where the Stress Falls, op. cit., p. 298.
35. David Rieff, "I'm Not Interested in Quality of Life", The Guardian (G2) (7 December 2005).