Radical thinking

Susan Sontag was concerned with everything, from high culture to the popular, from the extravagant to the everyday. She turned towards the world and turned her back on the university. Ironically, this made her a founding figure of Cultural Studies. Whether it is about illness or the impact of images, pornography or war photography, the ethics of seeing or the aesthetics of the avant-garde, her cultural critiques sharpen both thought and sensory perception. Thus, Sontag's essays provide a wealth of points of connection for interdisciplinary explorations in the field of culture. The texts in this volume explore Sontag's work through the lenses of literature and art, philosophy and psychoanalysis. They demonstrate how her approaches can illuminate the present and honor her critical imagination. For the first time, this engagement with Sontag brings together not only scholarly and essayistic contributions but also artistic, literary, and lyrical works. It offers a new approach to a radical thinker, extending beyond mere interpretation.