圖書標籤: SusanSontag 蘇珊·桑塔格 美國 Sontag 社會學 cancer 隨筆 社會
发表于2024-12-22
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote "Illness as Metaphor," a classic work described by "Newsweek" as "one of the most liberating books of its time." A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding cancer, Sontag shows cancer for what it is--just a disease. Cancer, she argues, is not a curse, not a punishment, certainly not an embarrassment and, it is highly curable, if good treatment is followed. Almost a decade later, with the outbreak of a new, stigmatized disease replete with mystifications and punitive metaphors, Sontag wrote a sequel to "Illness" "as Metaphor," extending the argument of the earlier book to the AIDS pandemic. These two essays now published together, "Illness" "as Metaphor "and "AIDS and Its Metaphors," have been translated into many languages and continue to have an enormous influence on the thinking of medical professionals and, above all, on the lives of many thousands of patients and caregivers.
桑塔格1933年生於美國紐約,畢業於芝加哥大學。1993年當選為美國文學藝術學院院士。她是當前美國聲名卓著的“新知識分子”,和西濛・彼伏娃、漢娜・阿倫特並稱為西方當代最重要的女知識分子,被譽為“美國公眾的良心”。2000年獲美國國傢圖書奬、2001年獲耶路撒冷國際文學奬,並獲得2003年度德國圖書大奬――德國書業和平奬。
Hard to read but very inspiring. Some parts of it made me feel uncomfortable though.
評分高山走石不帶喘,旁徵博引如Bakhtin,囉嗦重復也如Bakhtin。敬佩作者為病患去汙名的決心,雖然懷疑提到的隱喻是否都能算是汙名。作者說寫得很急,閱讀時能明顯感覺到,有時過度類化,比如ivanovich和Aschenbach得的什麼病書裏都沒說,怎麼好就算作是TB和癌。
評分Comparative Literature R1A... A totally different perspective for illness!
評分旁徵博引。“The Romantics invented invalidism as a pretext for leisure, and for dismissing bourgeois obligations in order to live only for one’s art. ” 我宣布留學生的pretext for leisure是humanities.
評分“人類從曆史中學到的唯一教訓,就是人類無法從曆史中學到任何教訓。”雖然我始終對這過分流行的句子有諸多懷疑,因為 1. 它預設進步史觀,曆史是螺鏇上升的,因此它提供課程,人們理應從中“學到”並“越來越好”;2. 後半句指齣並強調“進步”的失敗,順便滑入對“寶貴的教訓”之失去的憂鬱中,繼而是對人類“屢教不改”之秉性的悲觀。但當如桑塔格所言,大災難修辭愈漸膨脹,大災難迫近的現實性趨嚮永恒,成瞭“一齣沒完沒瞭的連續劇”(該象徵亦直指近期常見的“這集也看過”修辭),它既在發生、又沒有發生(如“對未來生態危機的演戲”論調)等等,我也免不瞭産生“人類本質復讀機”的絕望感。“復讀機”的核心在語言亦在機器、在世界運行的邏輯,多少年前桑塔格就在反對軍事敘事瞭,三十年瞭,不信進步史觀可能也是為瞭自己的身心健康。
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評分你经历了一件事,却觉得它不该在此时此景发生,事后你又认定这突然的发生似乎是一种必然。阅读苏珊-桑塔格这本小书的过程便是这样一种奇妙的感觉。 这是一本“易懂”的社科论文集,易懂是指作者以一种片断式的写作方法来论述并分析问题(桑塔格向来反感那种高堂...
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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024