{"product_id":"susan-sontags-tangential-classics-laura-jansen-9780192870698","title":"Susan Sontag's Tangential Classics","description":"Susan Sontag (1933-2004) once declared: \"My idea of a writer: someone interested in 'everything'. Being interested in 'everything' had come naturally to me.\" This statement was made thirty years after the publication of \u003cem\u003eAgainst Interpretation\u003c\/em\u003e in 1966, towards the end of a prolific career as an essayist, diarist, novelist, filmmaker, and activist. The Greco-Roman classics play an intriguing part in this narrative of insatiable thirst for knowledge. \u003cem\u003eSusan Sontag's Tangential Classics\u003c\/em\u003e sets out to focus on this juncture in her work. Instead of offering an account of antiquity in Sontag, or of Sontag on antiquity, the collected chapters are specifically concerned with her as a case of a thinker in whom the classical tradition does not come into exclusive focus, but emerges \u003cem\u003etangentially--\u003c\/em\u003ein often disparate and exiguous traces, connections, and references within a polymathic awareness. This volume examines Sontag's work and life to probe new strategies of plotting antiquity, when its presence in modernity is alluring yet barely there, and when the connective thread of influence seems to exist at breaking point. \u003cem\u003eSusan Sontag's Tangential Classics\u003c\/em\u003e directs our attention to a twentieth-century thinker who invites a markedly different perception of antiquity and its influence in her thought: at once captivating and light, provocative and uncertain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laura Jansen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0192870696\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780192870698\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/06\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Laura Jansen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46867251101951,"sku":"9780192870698","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ab57dbaf-e557-46f7-b670-77e83e33f6c4.jpg?v=1747454287","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/susan-sontags-tangential-classics-laura-jansen-9780192870698","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}