和西蒙·波伏娃、汉娜·阿伦特一起被称为西方当代最重要女知识分子的苏珊·桑塔格以其卓然独立而又坚定的批判精神,被誉为“美国公众的良心”。桑塔格在她的《疾病的隐喻》(上海文艺出版社2003年版)一书中,以一个知识分子的敏锐,通过自身身患癌症的痛苦经历,感觉到了附着于疾 Susan Sontag, who together with Simon Beauvoir and Hannah Arendt known as the most important contemporary female intellectual in the West, has been hailed as “the conscience of the American public ”. Sontag, in her Metaphors of Disease (Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, 2003 edition), perceived by the intellectual acumen as a painful experience of cancer,