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Zusatztext With a light and magical touch! Alice Jardine narrates the story of Julia Kristeva's journey from the Black Sea to the Atlantic to the expanse of human singularity. In her intimate account! Jardine shows how Kristeva became one of the most extraordinary intellectuals of our era. Scholars will be delighted with new biographical nuggets! such as why it was that Lacan didn't make it to that trip to China. But more! for every reader! here is is a story that will inspire us all to think more deeply! to revolt against preconceptions! and--instead of being shaped by the Big Other--to become our own force in creating the meaning of our lives. Informationen zum Autor Alice Jardine is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University, USA. Her publications include The Future of Difference (1980), Gynésis: Configurations of Woman and Modernity (1985), Living Attention: On Teresa Brennan (2007), and, as translator, Julia Kristeva's Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art (ed. Leon Roudiez, trans. Thomas Gora, Alice Jardine and Leon Roudiez, 1980). Mari Ruti (PhD, Harvard University) was Distinguished Professor of Critical Theory and of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada. She was the author of numerous important works, including thirteen books The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within (2012); Between Levinas and Lacan: Self, Other, Ethics (Bloomsbury, 2015); The Age of Scientific Sexism (Bloomsbury, 2015); Feminist Film Theory and Pretty Woman (Bloomsbury, 2016); Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings: The Emotional Costs of Everyday Life (2018); Distillations: Theory, Ethics, Affect (editor; Bloomsbury, 2018); and Critical Theory Between Klein and Lacan: A Dialogue - with Amy Allen (Bloomsbury, 2019).The first biography of Julia Kristeva—one of the most important intellectuals of the last 100 years. It connects her personal journey with the history of her ideas, clarifies her legacy within the context of postwar European thought, and demonstrates her crucial importance for the future of interdisciplinary thought. Zusammenfassung A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearFinalist for the 2021 Prose Awards (Biography & Autobiography category) At the Risk of Thinking is the first biography of Julia Kristeva--one of the most celebrated intellectuals in the world. Alice Jardine brings Kristeva's work to a broader readership by connecting Kristeva’s personal journey, from her childhood in Communist Bulgaria to her adult life as an international public intellectual based in Paris, with the history of her ideas. Informed by extensive interviews with Kristeva herself, this telling of a remarkable woman’s life story also draws out the complexities of Kristeva’s writing, emphasizing her call for an urgent revival of bold interdisciplinary thinking in order to understand--and to act in--today’s world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Author’s Note Introduction: At the Risk of Thinking The Question of the Intellectual—AgainIn the Face of ResistanceMy Coup de FoudreWhy Now? The Contestatory IntellectualNotes on the Biography Part I Bulgaria, My Suffering (1941–1965) A Production of HistoryStoyan KristevAll My Childhood Was Bathed in ThisKristina KristevaOne Spoonful at a TimeI Didn’t Want to Take Care of All ThatThe JournalistPure OxygenThe WriterSputnik or the New NovelEndings, Beginnings Part II The Crazy Truth of It (1965–1979) Early ExileThe Lost Territory Tzvetan StoyanovMentors and a DoctoratePhilippe Sollers Tel Quel ResurrectionsSit Down! Sit Down!Dominique RolinMultiversesBeneath the Paving Stones Semiotike (1969) Language, the Unknown (1969)Émile Benvenist...
