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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 not...
Assuming the voices of psychoanalyst, scholar, and postmodern polemicist, Julia Kristeva discusses both the conflicts and commonalities among the Gree...
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...
This is a collection of 22 never-before-translated interviews and one personal essay by Julia Kristeva. Kristeva's in-depth discussions with major fig...
“A sprawling analysis of religion in major psychological and philosophical literature, fiction and in private life . . . compelling and remarkable.�...
Julia Kristeva is a true polymath, an intellectual of astonishingly wide range whose erudition and insight have been brought to bear on psychoanalysis...
In Revolution in Poetic Language, Julia Kristeva explicates her foundational distinction between the semiotic and the symbolic and explores their inte...
Interlacing the life and work of Arendt, the seminal 20th century philosopher, Kristeva provides readers with an elegant, sophisticated biography repl...
As a linguist, Julia Kristeva has pioneered a revolutionary theory of the sign in its relation to social and political emancipation; as a practicing p...
Drawing on the work of psychologist Helene Deutsch and the writer Germaine de Stael. Kristeva turns her attention in the second half of New Maladies o...
An Essay on Abjection
In Powers of Horror, Julia Kristeva offers an extensive and profound consideration of the nature of abjection. Drawing on Freud and Lacan, she analyze...
An Initiation Into Linguistics
In this wide-ranging and accessible introduction, internationally known linguist, psychoanalyst, and theorist Julia Kristeva presents the evolution an...
Proust and the Experience of Literature
Julia Kristeva’s Time and Sense is a major reassessment of Marcel Proust and In Search of Lost Time. Not only a meditation on Proust, it is also a c...
Moving from the First Crusade to the sun-dappled, cultural wasteland of present-day Santa Varvara, Julia Kristeva's deftly-plotted, multilayered novel...
In the late twelfth century, Japanese people called the transitional period in which they were living the "age of warriors." Feudal clans fought civil...
Depression and Melancholia
Julia Kristeva examines melancholia across art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and culture, and psychoanalysis. She describes the dep...
A definitive biography offers insight into the life and work of novelist Colette and provides accounts of Colette's celebration of sexual pleasure in ...
Wolves invade the seaside resort town of Santa Vavara in Eastern Europe, killing thousands of people, but no one will talk of it except a Latin profes...
Capital Visions
Renowned philosopher and cultural theorist Kristeva (Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection) offers an extended consideration of artistic figurations...
Annotation Julia Kristeva explores the phenomenon of hate (and our attempts to subvert, sublimate and otherwise process the emotion) through key texts...
An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila
Mixing fiction, history, psychoanalysis, and personal fantasy, Teresa, My Love turns a past world into a modern marvel, following Sylvia Leclercq, a F...
Not only a meditation on Proust, this is a commentary on how the experience of literature is manifested in time and sensation. Kristeva uses Proust as...
Kristeva presents a thoroughly original and compelling reading of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, drawing on Proust's notebooks and manuscripts....
A Novel
Passionate and promiscuous intellectual warriors - the "samurai" for whom "writing is the only lasting act of pleasure and war combined." Readers will...
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"A series of dialogues and exchanges between Julia Kristeva and Philippe Sollers on their marriage" --...
Julia Kristeva extends the definition of revolt beyond politics per se. May '68 in France expressed a fundamental version of freedom: not freedom to s...
The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis
Linguist, psychoanalyst, and cultural theorist, Julia Kristeva is one of the most influential and prolific thinkers of our time. Her writings have bro...
A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art
Desire in Language presents a selection of Julia Kristeva’s essays that trace the path of an investigation, extending over a period of ten years, in...
Julia Kristeva, herself a product of the famous May '68 Paris student uprising, has long been fascinated by the concept of rebellion and revolution. P...
After a woman is murdered and decapitated, French journalist Stephanie Delacour interviews various people who knew her and the probe becomes a study i...
A gem of a personal exploration by Julia Kristeva, examining contemporary issues such as European identity, the role of religion in political life, an...
Growing up in Bulgaria, Julia Kristeva was warned by her father not to read Dostoyevsky. “Of course, and as usual,” she recalls, “I disobeyed pa...
In November 1996, Catherine ClA(c)ment and Julia Kristeva began a correspondence exploring the subject of the sacred. Their correspondence lead them t...
Life is a Narrative
Kristeva explores the philosophical aspects of Hannah Arendt's work: her understanding of such concepts as language, self, body, political space, and ...
Possessions est un roman policier. Il commence par la découverte à Santa Barbara du corps d'une femme décapitée: Gloria Harrison, traductrice de s...
The third book in Kristeva's trilogy on female genius, Colette interlaces commentary on the life and work of this notorious French novelist who made i...
In the Palace of Versailles there is a fabulous golden clock, made for Louis XV by the king’s engineer, Claude-Siméon Passemant. The astronomical c...