Interview With Camille Paglia

Subject: Interview With Camille Paglia Fri Apr 03, 2020 9:37 pm

Camille Paglia is daring, controversial, an intellectual Uzi on wheels, spewing out ten rounds of thought per millisecond. She’s also undoubtedly today’s most notorious (and loudest) challenger to the politically-correct academic and feminist status quo. Author of the best-selling Sexual Personae and two books of essays (her latest from Vintage is Vamps and Tramps), she burst onto the literary scene in 1990 following publication of Sexual Personae, a kaleidoscopic treatise on sex in art and literature through the ages (praised as “brilliant” and “provocative”), and has since been wittily trashing everyone and everything that hints of deadened dogma or would lead Western civilization down a path of soullessness.
Paglia’s mission seems nothing less than to restore down-and-dirty common sense to trendy intellectual thinking and American academe. With one foot in mass media, this “guerrilla scholar” and renegade feminist routinely riles up the Oprah crowd with her unconventional theories and has learned critics snapping at her heels, claiming she’s way over the top, sensationalist and rambunctious to boot.
But, so what? Hers is a voice we need to hear in these anemic ’90s. Born 47 years ago, Paglia (the “g” is silent) is a ’60s rebel, a true iconoclast, an intellectual skateboarder, swerving, jumping curbs and covering more historical ground than a six-pack of modern feminists. A professor of humanities at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, she is a prodrug, prostitution, abortion and pornography libertarian. A Yale grad equally enamored of Baudelaire and Madonna, she favors old-world rigor in education and “bawdy, streetwise” confrontations in feminist politics. In this interview, Paglia holds forth on drugs and the ’60s.

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Interview With Camille Paglia

Interview With Camille Paglia

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