Camille Paglia: Sex, Art and Society
Written by Tom Donelson
Published August 18, 2004
Published August 18, 2004
Ms. Paglia's own cultural catholic background comes through in this book as she goes back and forth on the role of the artist in challenging Civilization. In the end, she prefers a world in which Civilization is allowed to win but paganism is allowed to exist. She is looking for a balance between the artists and the society they work in.
(This was excerpted from my first book, Economics 101 and Other Thoughts and updated.)
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Just out of curiousity, you start off by saying "Camille Paglia is openly gay and atheistic, but is a closet conservative." Why must being a conservative necessarily be in contradiction to being either gay or an atheist?
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I tried to get through "Sexual Personae" but wound up throwing the book across the room after reading too many unsubstantiated assertions such as "cats make the best pets".
She is just a verbose ego-maniac, and seems to be a very unpleasant person to be around. Her books are just unrewarding (for the reader) tantrums for attention.