Julia Kristeva:Author-ccebook-Valuable English Books

Hannah Arendt: Life is a Narrative (Alexander Lectures)

Author: Julia Kristeva
Publisher: University of Toronto Pre
Keywords: alexander, lectures, narrative, life, arendt, hannah
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 2001-01-13
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0802035213
ISBN-13: 9780802035219

Julia Kristeva’s Hannah Arendt brings together two of the best minds in 20th-century philosophy; two who are especially noteworthy because they are visionary women in a field long dominated by men. Appropriately, the book is, in part, a tribute to Arendt, one of a series of looks at female genius. Kristeva brings her considerable scholarly arsenal, which includes linguistics, literary criticism, philosophy, feminism, aesthetics, cultural studies, and psychoanalysis. In particular, her psychoanalytic bent makes for an incisive look at Arendt because she was "gripped from the start by that

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Crisis of the European Subject (Cultural Studies)

Author: Julia Kristeva
Publisher: Other Pre
Keywords: studies, cultural, subject, european, crisis
Number of Pages: 183
Published: 2000-04-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1892746476
ISBN-13: 9781892746474

In these four pached meditations, bursting with intellectual vitality, Kristeva comes forth as an erudite as well as a personal, political, religious, and philosophical thinker, without relinquishing her (un)usual, exquisite poetic style...Engaging the issue of the contemporary failure of oedipal subjectivity and attacking our era of technology and robotization, she bravely calls for a return to the origins of our cultural memory. This is a provocative book for intellectuals of every stripe.

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Kristeva Reader

Author: Julia Kristeva
Publisher: Columbia University
Keywords: reader, kristeva
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1986-05-01
List price: $68.00
ISBN-10: 0231063245
ISBN-13: 9780231063241

An easily accessible introduction to Kristeva’s work in English. The essays have been selected as representative of the three main areas of Kristeva’s writing--semiotics, psychoanalysis, and political theory--and are each prefaced by a clear, instructive introduction. For beginners or those familiar with Kristeva’s work this is a good complement to The Portable Kristeva with a convenient selection of articles from Kristeva’s earlier work some of which are otherwise hard to come by.

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Le Texte Du Roman: Approche Semiologique D’Une Structure Discursive Transformationnelle (Approaches to Semiotics)

Author: Julia Kristeva
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Keywords: discursive, transformationnelle, approaches, semiotics, structure, une, roman, approche, semiologique, texte
Number of Pages: 210
Published: 1979-03
List price: $39.00
ISBN-10: 9027933049
ISBN-13: 9789027933041

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Strangers to Ourselves

Author: Julia Kristeva
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: ourselves, strangers
Number of Pages: 230
Published: 1994-08-15
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0231071574
ISBN-13: 9780231071574

This book is concerned with the notion of the "stranger" -the foreigner, outsider, or alien in a country and society not their own- as well as the notion of strangeness within the self -a person’s deep sense of being, as distinct from outside appearance and their conscious idea of self. Kristeva begins with the personal and moves outward by examining world literature and philosophy. She discusses the foreigner in Greek tragedy, in the Bible, and in the literature of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Enlightenment, and the twentieth century. She discusses the legal status of foreigners throu