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Camille Paglia

Summary

Camille Paglia (born 1947) is an American academic and cultural critic known for Sexual Personae (1990), which traces erotic imagery through Western art and literature, and for her contrarian brand of feminism that celebrates Dionysian sexuality and criticizes left-wing orthodoxy.

Core Contribution

Sexual Personae is a monumental work of cultural criticism; her contrarian feminism challenged PC culture from the left.

Key Spikes & Highlights

  • feminism
  • sexuality
  • cultural criticism
  • art history

Notable Works & Achievements

Sexual Personae

Sex, Art, and American Culture

Vamps and Tramps

Historical Influences

Nietzsche Freud art history

Intellectual Lineage

American cultural criticism

Contemporaries & Peers

Harvey Mansfield cultural critics

Minds Influenced

Cultural criticism contrarian feminismart criticism

Intellectual Posterity

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