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Author:   Julia Kristeva ,  Jeanine Herman
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
Imprint:   Columbia University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.496kg
ISBN:  

9780231143257

ISBN 10:   0231143257
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   17 April 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Foreword, by Pierre-Louis Fort I. Worlds 1. Thinking About Liberty in Dark Times 2. Secularism: Values at the Limits of Life 3. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity and ... Vulnerability II. Women 4. On Parity, Again; or, Women and the Sacred 5. From Madonnas to Nudes: A Representation of Female Beauty 6. The Passion According to Motherhood 7. The War of the Sexes Since Antiquity 8. Beauvoir, Presently 9. Fatigue in the Feminine III. Psychoanalyzing 10. The Sobbing Girl; or, On Hysterical Time 11. Healing, a Psychical Rebirth 12. From Object Love to Objectless Love 13. Desire for Law 14. Language, Sublimation, Women 15. Hatred and Forgiveness; or, From Abjection to Paranoia 16. Three Essays; or, the Victory of Polymorphous Perversion IV. Religion 17. Atheism 18. The Triple Uprooting of Israel 19. What Is Left of Our Loves? V. Portraits 20. The Inevitable Form 21. A Stranger 22. Writing as Strangeness and Jouissance VI. Writing 23. The True-Lie, Our Unassailable Contemporary 24. Murder in Byzantium; or, Why I ship myself on a voyage in a Novel Notes Notes on the Origins of the Texts Bibliography Index

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<p>Praise for Julia Kristeva: Julia Kristeva is a figure of far-reaching eloquence. -- Washington Post Julia Kristeva is one of the leading voices in contemporary French criticism, on a par with such names as Genette, Foucault, Greimas and others. -- Paul de Man Julia Kristeva changes the place of things: she always destroys the latest preconception, the one we thought we could be comforted by, the one of which we could be proud; what she displaces is the illusion that it has all been said already, that is, she removes the pressure of the signified--in a word, stupidity; what she subverts is authority--that of monological science, of filiation. --Roland Barthes Both readers and listeners, whether agreeing or in stubborn disagreement with Julia Kristeva, feel indeed attracted to her contagious voice and to her genuine gift of questioning generally adopted 'axioms, ' or to her contrary gift of releasing various 'damned questions' from their traditional question mark. --Roman Jakob

Julia Kristeva's book is a memorable source of reflections on the temptation and quest of being... -- Kerrin A. Jacobs Metapsychology successful in carrying over to the English-speaking public the contemporary tonalities of Kristeva's voice. -- Marios Constantinou and Maria Margaroni Years Work in Critical and Cultural Theory

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Julia Kristeva is professor of linguistics at the Universite de Paris VII and author of many acclaimed works and novels, including This Incredible Need to Believe, Murder in Byzantium, Strangers to Ourselves, New Maladies of the Soul, Time and Sense, Hannah Arendt, and Melanie Klein. She is the recipient of the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought and the Holberg International Memorial Prize. Jeanine Herman is the translator of volumes 1 and 2 of Julia Kristeva's The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis and her translation of Julien Gracq's Reading Writing was a finalist for the French-American Foundation Translation Prize.

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