On Courage and Resistance

Susan Sontag

2003

Let’s start with risk. The risk of being punished. The risk of being isolated. The risk of being injured or killed. The risk of being scorned. We are all conscripts in one sense or another. For all of us, it is hard to break ranks; to incur the disapproval, the censure, the violence of an offended majority with a different idea of loyalty. We…

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Susan Sontag

1933–2004

Born in New York, Susan Sontag grew up in Tucson and Los Angeles. As a critic, essayist, novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, Sontag produced controversial works on contemporary art, philosophy, literature, politics, and morality. She explored the art of photography and wrote about the stigma and metaphorical interpretations of disease in contemporary society. Among her numerous awards was the 2001 Jerusalem Prize.

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