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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection

Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection more books like this

by Professor Julia Kristeva, Professor Leon S Roudiez (Translator)

In this long essay on abjection, Kristeva draws examples from literary figures such as Dostoevsky, Joyce, Proust, Borges, Sade, and Artaud.

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Colette

Colette more books like this

by Professor Julia Kristeva, Professor Jane Marie Todd (Translator)

Published on the fiftieth anniversary of her death, this intellectual biography of Colette -- the final volume of Julia Kristeva's trilogy "Female Genius" -- will be considered a major breakthrough in understanding one of the great creative minds of the twentieth century.Colette (1873-1954) was a prolific novelist who celebrated sexual pleasure ...

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Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt more books like this

by Professor Julia Kristeva, Professor Ross Guberman (Translator)

Kristeva delivers a thoughtful consideration of Arendt as a philosopher, a woman, and a Jew in an attempt to clarify contradictions made by her and rectify misconceptions about her. In particular, Kristeva discusses Arendt's express belief that a genuine life is not only a political life, but also one lived through narrative.

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Strangers to ourselves

Strangers to ourselves more books like this

by Julia Kristeva

This is a study of the stranger, both as a deep personal sense of self as distinct from that being known to outsiders, and as the foreigner, an alien in a different country or society not his or her own. The work covers the fields of literature and philosophy - from Greek tragedy and the Bible, through the literature of the Middle Ages, the ...

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Kristeva Reader

Kristeva Reader more books like this

by Professor Julia Kristeva, Toril Moi (Photographer)

This collection of writings by Kristeva includes selections from REVOLUTION OF POETIC LANGUAGE and other works, as well as interviews, written into the '80s.

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Desire in language : a semiotic approach to literature and art

Desire in language : a semiotic approach to literature and art more books like this

by Julia Kristeva, Leon S. Roudiez

This collection of essays by French psychoanalyst and critic Julia Kristeva includes many of her essays first published in the '70s in Tel Quel and other important journals, including "From One Identity to Another."

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Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia

Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia more books like this

by Professor Julia Kristeva, Professor Leon S Roudiez (Translator)

-- The New York Times

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The Feminine and the Sacred

The Feminine and the Sacred more books like this

by Catherine Clément, Julia Kristeva

In November 1996, Catherine Clement and Julia Kristeva began a correspondence exploring the subject of the sacred. In this collection of those letters Catherine Clement approaches the topic from an anthropologist's point of view while Julia Kristeva responds from a psychoanalytic perspective. Their correspondence leads them to a controversial and ...

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Melanie Klein

Melanie Klein more books like this

by Professor Julia Kristeva, Professor Ross Guberman (Translator)

MELANIE KLEIN, as the second installment of Kristeva's three-volume work on women intellectuals, describes the intellectual and personal development of this highly influential psychoanalyst. Kristeva clearly demonstrates the theoretical work that Klein pioneered with children and autism, her massaging of Freud's theory of the unconscious, and the ...

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Time and Sense: Proust and the Experience of Literature

Time and Sense: Proust and the Experience of Literature more books like this

by Professor Julia Kristeva, Professor Ross Guberman (Translator)

-- Modern Philology

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Revolution in Poetic Language more books like this

by Professor Julia Kristeva, Margaret Waller (Translator)

Derived from the 646-page thesis that Kristeva presented for her state doctorate in 1973, this is a study of literature ("poetic language") as a semiotic system, and examines works by Lautreamont and Mallarme.

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Murder in Byzantium more books like this

by Professor Julia Kristeva, Professor C Jon Delogu (Translator)

In this absorbing, suspenseful novel Julia Kristeva combines social satire, medieval history, philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, and autobiography within a gruesome murder mystery. Murder in Byzantium deftly moves from eleventh-century Europe, wracked by the turbulence of the First Crusade, to the sun-dappled, cultural wasteland of present-day ...

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The Samurai more books like this

by Professor Julia Kristeva, Professor Barbara Bray (Translator)

A portrait of Parisian intellectuals of the 1960s as seen through the eyes of Olga, a young Eastern European who comes to Paris to write a literary thesis, and finds herself immediately swept into the world of a group of young leftist thinkers and writers known as the "Samurai".

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New Maladies of the Soul more books like this

by Professor Julia Kristeva, Professor Ross Guberman (Translator)

Drawing on 15 years of experience as a practicing psychoanalyst, Kristeva reveals to readers a new kind of patient, symptomatic of an age of political upheaval, mass-mediated culture, and the dramatic overhaul of familial and sexual mores. She poses a troubling question about the human subject in the West today: Is the psychic space that we have ...

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Tales of Love more books like this

by Professor Julia Kristeva, Professor Leon S Roudiez (Translator)

In 'Tales of Love' Julia Kristeva pursues her exploration of the basic emotions that affect the human psyche. The processes are similar to those followed in 'Powers of Horror'. She begins with a statement from personal experience and follows it with a critical examination of the psychoanalytic position with respect to the matter at hand.

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The Old Man and the Wolves more books like this

by Professor Julia Kristeva, Professor Barbara Bray (Translator)

Part detective story, part fable, this novel takes the reader to a mythical post-industrial city where the boundaries between East and West, civilization and barbarianism have been erased.

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Language--The Unknown: An Initiation Into Linguistics more books like this

by Professor Julia Kristeva

-- Voice Literary Supplement

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The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt: The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis more books like this

by Professor Julia Kristeva, Professor Jeanine Herman (Translator)

Foremost psychoanalyst and linguist Julia Kristeva discusses the nature of revolt, its embodiment by figures such as Sartre and Barthes, and its potential in Western society.

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The Portable Kristeva more books like this

by Professor Julia Kristeva

As a linguist, Julia Kristeva has helped to pioneer a revolutionary theory of the sign in its relation to social and political emancipation; as a practising psychoanalyst, she has produced work on the nature of the human subject and sexuality, and on the new "maladies" of today's neurotic. This text is a compilation of Kristeva's key writings. ...

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Intimate Revolt: The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis more books like this

by Professor Julia Kristeva, Professor Jeanine Herman (Translator), Professor Lawrence D Kritzman (Editor)

Julia Kristeva, herself a product of the famous May '68 Paris student uprising, has long been fascinated by the concept of rebellion and revolution. Psychoanalysts believe that rebellion guarantees our independence and creative capacities, but is revolution still possible? Confronted with the culture of entertainment, can we build and nurture a ...

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Intimate Revolt: The Powers and the Limits of Psychoanalysis more books like this

by Professor Julia Kristeva, Professor Jeanine Herman (Translator)

Julia Kristeva, herself a product of the famous May '68 Paris student uprising, has long been fascinated by the concept of rebellion and revolution. Psychoanalysts believe that rebellion guarantees our independence and creative capacities, but is revolution still possible? Confronted with the culture of entertainment, can we build and nurture a ...

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The House of Jacob more books like this

by Sylvie Courtine-Denamy, Mr. William Sayers (Translator), Professor Julia Kristeva (Foreword by)

The author digs deeply into history to uncover the roots of her highly assimilated Sephardic Jewish family, going all over the world to find relatives who could tell her family stories. Taking the family back to the 15th century, she finds a rich trove of Spanish-Judaic information about not only her own family but the culture from which it sprang.

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Crisis of the European Subject more books like this

by Professor Julia Kristeva, Susan Fairfield (Translator)

A gem of a personal exploration by Julia Kristeva, examining contemporary issues such as European identity, the role of religion in political life, and the meaning of equality for women. "In these four packed meditations, bursting with intellectual vitality, Kristeva comes forth as an erudite as well as a personal, political, religious, and ...

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Nations Without Nationalism more books like this

by Professor Julia Kristeva

Kristeva points to Montesquieu's esprit general -- his notion of the social body as a guaranteed hierarchy of private rights -- in this humanistic plea for tolerance and commonality.

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Hannah Arendt: Life is a Narrative more books like this

by Professor Julia Kristeva, Frank Collins (Translator)

Kristeva delivers a thoughtful consideration of Arendt as a philosopher, a woman, and a Jew in an attempt to clarify contradictions made by her and rectify misconceptions about her. In particular, Kristeva discusses Arendt's express belief that a genuine life is not only a political life, but also one lived through narrative.

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