Camille Paglia
Culture critic who argues with everyone, the art and the academy included.
Ideas
- Apollo and Dionysus
- Western culture is a standoff between order and form, and instinct and chaos. Art is how we keep nature at bay.
- Against poststructuralism
- She attacks French theory and academic feminism for losing touch with art, biology and history.
- A pagan view of nature
- Nature is powerful and indifferent, and culture is a defence against it more than a corruption of it.
Start with
- Sexual Personae (1990)
- Sex, Art, and American Culture (1992)
- Break, Blow, Burn (2005)
