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 it possible for women to write erotic literature. The result is an elegant and sophisticated...
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....
In "Black Sun," Julia Kristeva addresses the subject of melancholia, examining this phenomenon in the context of art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and culture, as well as psychoanalysis. She describes the depressive as one...
Julia Kristeva, herself a product of the famous May 1968 Paris student uprising, explores the concept of rebellion and revolution in this book. Psychoanalysts believe that rebellion guarantees our independence and creative capacities, but is revolution...
An intellectual biography of one of the past century's most important thinkers, this work emphasizes three features of the philosopher Hannah Arendt's work: her critique on Saint Augustine and biographical essay on Rahel Varnhagen, her perspective...
In this major study, the author addresses the need for new psychoanalytical models to cope with a moral crisis of values: a crisis resulting from a breakdown of values, a loss of ideology and deteriorating beliefs. She offers ways of coping with