This thinker ended a 20-section work by asking "how far the resources of irony can be stretched," after describing its title concept as "soft" in John Cage's work and "loud" elsewhere.
This thinker ended a 20-section work by asking "how far the resources of irony can be stretched," after describing its title concept as "soft" in John Cage's work and "loud" elsewhere. In another essay, this thinker noted in a footnote that the Greek notion of form was spatial rather than temporal, and wrote that the idea of "content" is a "mere hindrance." This author of "The Aesthetics of Silence" ended an essay by writing "In place of a hermeneutics, we need an erotics of art." She contrasted the glorification of tuberculosis patients with the victim-blaming experienced by cancer patients, and quoted Oscar Wilde to discuss a sensibility which is "good because it's awful." For 10 points, name this American author of Illness as Metaphor, who included "Notes on 'Camp'" in Against Interpretation.
This thinker ended a 20-section work by asking "how far the resources of irony can be stretched," after describing its title concept as "soft" in John Cage's work and "loud" elsewhere.
Susan Sontag