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This title considers the social and political significance of Kristeva's oeuvre.

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Author:   Kelly Oliver ,  S. K. Keltner
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.372kg
ISBN:  

9781438426501

ISBN 10:   143842650
Pages:   261
Publication Date:   01 January 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Introduction:Politics from 'a bit of a distance' S. K. Keltner Part I. Two Statements by Kristeva 1. A Meditation, a Political Act, an Art of Living Julia Kristeva, translated by S. K. Keltner 2. Decollations Julia Kristeva, translated by Caroline Arruda Part II. The Violence of the Spectacle 3. Meaning against Death Kelly Oliver 4. Kristeva's Intimate Revolt and the Thought Specular: Encountering the (Mulholland) Drive Frances L. Restuccia 5. Julia Kristeva and the Trajectory of the Image John Lechte 6. The Darkroom of the Soul Robyn Ferrell 7. Julia Kristeva's Chiasmatic Journeys:From Byzantium to the Phantom of Europe and the End of the World Maria Margaroni Part III. Intimacy and the Loss of Politics 8. Love's Lost Labors:Subjectivity, Art, and Politics Sara Beardsworth 9. Symptomatic Reading:Kristeva on Duras Lisa Walsh 10. What Is Intimacy? S. K. Keltner 11. Fear of Intimacy? Psychoanalysis and the Resistance to Commodification Cecilia Sjoholm 12. Humanism, the Rights of Man, and the Nation-State Emily Zakin 13. Kristeva's Uncanny Revolution:Imagining the Meaning of Politics Jeff Edmonds 14. Religion and the ""Rights of Man"" in Julia Kristeva's Work Idit Alphandar Contributors Index"

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Kelly Oliver is W. Alton Jones Chair of Philosophy and Professor of Women's Studies at Vanderbilt University. Her previous books include Language and Liberation: Feminism, Philosophy, and Language and Living Attention: On Teresa Brennan, both also published by SUNY Press, along with Reading Kristeva: Unraveling the Double-bind and The Portable Kristeva. S. K. Keltner is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Kennesaw State University.

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