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Sontag's passing.

Publication: Arena Magazine
Publication Date: 01-FEB-05 		Format: Online - approximately 902 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Sontag's passing.(Bites: brief notes on news and views from around the world)(Susan Sontag)(Obituary)

Article Excerpt
Fitting perhaps that the re-election of George W Bush should be followed in such short order by the death of Susan Sontag a few weeks later. If anything represented an old world passing--or at least for the moment moving into eclipse--it was the triumph of a narrow fundamentalist shown to be a liar, counterposed with one of the most celebrated, engaged intellectuals of the English-speaking world.

Among the plaudits and neutral obituaries, Sontag also received the treatment now common in a time when critical and reflective thinking is held to be unpatriotic: a thorough filleting in an op-ed piece in the Australian, reprinted from the UK's Daily Telegraph. Sontag is a prize target for the neocon political-intellectual establishment precisely because she never succumbed to the late-period Stalinist or Maoist enthusiasms that have dogged the...

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