On Susan Sontag's "a New Sensibility"

Sontag was a great philosopher, dramatist, literary critic and novelist. Sontag is known for her "new sensibility" thought in the world, Her thoughts affect world literary and postmodern popular culture, her works had been gradually translated into Chinese before and after her death, Studying her thought becomes more and more popular, With the keen insight Sontag grasped the pulse of the times, with a total of suspected and innovative spirit she subverted the traditional view of art since, Her new sensibility is the soul of all her works, this paper's core idea is studying her new sensibility.Chapter I started from the ontological doubts, she criticized the artists since Plato over interpreted the value and content of art, leading to a distorted interpretation of the original works and imposed his own points of view on art, interpretation of art lost its legitimacy.Chapter II in order to restore the over-interpretation of the sensibility, the strategy Sontag adopted was against the interpretation, that is reversing the ontology of art, She rose the formal to the height of ontology, this chapter discussed the meaning and characteristics of against the interpretation from the post-modern philosophy. Thus established theoretical points and new strategies to the new sensibilityChapter III is the main part of this paper,it discusses the meaning of the new sensibility and its historical background and the characteristics of new sensibility, mainly in order to highlight the creative expression of new sensibility, which showed reconcile the chasm between elegant culture and mass culture, the fashion-oriented form of Camp reflects the new sensibility which stress form skills, with personal experience Sontag revealed the metaphor of disease that imposed on by people and restored the disease itself to save the patient. Chapterâ…£evaluates the new sensibility, essentially Sontag adopted a liberal attitude towards the new sensibility, she filled the gap between elite culture and popular culture so as to achieve a kind of harmonious symbiosis state, In order to emphasize the new sensibility Sontag adopted an absolute negative attitude toward content and promoted forms. Eventually in the process of against interpretation Sontag went to the other extreme of authoritarian interpretation of form.