The Philosophy of Julia Kristeva

Internationally famous philosopher, psychoanalyst, novelist, and cultural critic Julia Kristeva shares her autobiography and also replies to thirty-six outstanding thinkers who discuss and critique her work in this newest volume in the Library of Living Philosophers.

List of contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Frontispiece

General Introduction to the Library of Living Philosophers

Founder’s General Introduction to the Library of Living Philosophers

Advisory Board

Preface

PART ONE: Intellectual Autobiography of Julia Kristeva

Sample of Kristeva’s Handwriting

Intellectual Autobiography of Julia Kristeva: Je me voyage, A Journey Across Borders and Through Identities

PART TWO: DESCRIPTIVE AND CRITICAL ESSAYS ON THE
PHILOSOPHY OF JULIA KRISTEVA WITH REPLIES

I. Language and Semiotics

1. Dominique Ducard: The Semiotic Chora and the Inner Life of Language

2. John Lechte: Language, Literature, and the Founding Murder in the Work of Julia Kristeva

3. Eléana Mylona: Julia Kristeva Between the Semiotic and the Symbolic: The Process of Significance

Reply to Dominique Ducard, John Lechte, and Eléana Mylona

II. Theory of Literature

4. Marian Hobson: Julia Kristeva’s Farewell to Philosophy

5. Miglena Nikolchina: Signifiance and Transubstantiation: The Returns of the Avant-Garde in Kristeva’s Philosophy of Literature

6. Maria Margaroni: Artaud’s Madness and the Literary Obscene: Humanism and Its Double in Julia Kristeva

7. Philippe Forest: Birth of the Novel, Yesterday and Today

Reply to Marian Hobson, Miglena Nikolchina, Maria Margaroni, and Philippe Forest

III. Psychoanalysis

8. Bernard Brusset: Julia Kristeva: Original and Innovative Contributions at The Core of Psychoanalytic Theory

9. Jean-Louis Baldacci: Abjection, Reliance, and Sublimation

10. Jean-François Rabain: Julia Kristeva, Reader of Aragon

Reply to Bernard Brusset, Jean-Louis Baldacci, and Jean-François Rabain

IV. Art and Aesthetics

11. Anish Kapoor: Dear Julia

12. Elaine P. Miller: Julia Kristeva on the Severed Head and Other Maternal “Capital Visions”

13. Carin Franzén: An Antidote to the Crisis of Contemporary Culture: Rereading Kristeva on Duras

14. Françoise Coblence: Aesthetics According to Julia Kristeva

Reply to Anish Kapoor, Elaine P. Miller, Carin Franzén, and Françoise Coblence

V. Philosophy in the Novels

15. David Uhrig: No Present Apart

16. Pierre-Louis Fort: Julia Kristeva and the Detective Novel: Fiction and Metaphysics

Reply to David Uhrig and Pierre-Louis Fort

VI. Melancholy, Love, and the Sacred

17. Edward S. Casey: Depression: Heading Down and Out

18. Alina Feld: Melancholia: Passing Through and Beyond

19. Michal Ben-Naftali: A Baroque Reading of Tales of Love

20. Keren Mock: Language and Sacredness in the Quest for Subjectivity

Reply to Edward S. Casey, Alina N. Feld, Michal Ben-Naftali, and Keren Mock

VII. Desire, Knowledge, and Belief

21. Robert Harvey: Of Incredibility in the Need to Believe: A Philosophical Exploration

22. Alain Delaye: The Need to Believe and the Desire to Know

Reply to Robert Harvey and Alain Delaye

VIII. Theory of Revolt

23. Emilia Angelova: Abjection and the Maternal Semiotic in Kristeva’s Intimate Revolt

24. Sarah K. Hansen: Intimate Revolt at the Margins of Community and the Hope of Postcoloniality

25. Daniel Cohn-Bendit: Hannah Arendt Prize Speech 2006

Reply to Emilia Angelova, Sarah K. Hansen, and Daniel Cohn-Bendit

IX. Maternity and Maternal Reliance

26. Rosemary Balsam: The Controversial Nature of Kristeva’s “Maternal Reliance”

27. Rachel Boué-Widawsky: Maternal Eroticism and the Journey of a Concept in Kristeva’s Work

28. Fanny Söderbäck: Maternal Enigmas: Kristeva and the Paradoxes of Motherhood

Reply to Rosemary Balsam, Rachel Boué-Widawsky, and Fanny Söderbäck

X. Philosophy of Public Health

29. Charles Gardou: The “Intimate Face” of a Common Thought and Action

30. Eivind Engebretsen: Evidence-Based Medicine and the Irreducible Singularity of Being: Kristeva’s Contribution to the Medical Humanities

31. Marie-Rose Moro: The Polyglot Imaginary, a Poetics, and a Clinic

32. Jean Vanier: “Their Look Pierces Our Shadows”

Reply to Charles Gardou, Eivind Engebretsen, Marie-Rose Moro, and Jean Vanier

XI. Ethics and Politics

33. Cecilia Sjöholm: From Denial to Forgiveness: Kristeva, Arendt, and Radicalization

34. Ewa Ziarek: A Materialist Ethics of Psychoanalysis? Reflections on Matter, Forgiveness, and Vulnerability

35. Noëlle McAfee: Kristeva’s Latent Political Theory

36. Kelly Oliver: The Democracy of Proximity and Kristeva’s New Humanism

Reply to Cecilia Sjöholm, Ewa Ziarek, Noëlle McAfee, and Kelly Oliver

PART THREE: Bibliography of the Writings of Julia Kristeva

Index

About the author

Sara G. Beardsworth is Associate Professor and Editor of the Library of Living Philosophers, Department of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. She is the author of Julia Kristeva: Psychoanalysis and Modernity and co-editor of The Philosophy of Umberto Eco.

Summary

Internationally famous philosopher, psychoanalyst, novelist, and cultural critic Julia Kristeva shares her autobiography and also replies to thirty-six outstanding thinkers who discuss and critique her work in this newest volume in the Library of Living Philosophers.

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Assisted by	Sara G Beardsworth (Editor), Sara G. Beardsworth (Editor), Beardsworth Sara G. (Editor)
Publisher	Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	18.08.2020
EAN	9780812694895
ISBN	978-0-8126-9489-5
No. of pages	908
Dimensions	236 mm x 164 mm x 56 mm
Weight	1374 g
Illustrations	photographs; 6 Illustrations
Series	Library of Living Philosophers
Subjects	Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / Psychoanalysis, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Motherhood, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Depression, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Structuralism

Product details

• Assisted by: Sara G Beardsworth (Editor), Sara G. Beardsworth (Editor), Beardsworth Sara G. (Editor)
• Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.08.2020
• EAN: 9780812694895
• ISBN: 978-0-8126-9489-5
• No. of pages: 908
• Dimensions: 236 mm x 164 mm x 56 mm
• Weight: 1374 g
• Illustrations: photographs; 6 Illustrations
• Series: Library of Living Philosophers
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / Psychoanalysis, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Motherhood, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Depression, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Structuralism