Julia Kristeva, herself a product of the famous May '68 Paris
student uprising, has long been fascinated by the concept of
rebellion and revolution. Psychoanalysts believe that rebellion
guarantees our independence and creative capacities, but is
revolution still possible? Confronted with the culture of
entertainment, can we build and nurture a culture of revolt, in the
etymological and Proustian sense of the word: an unveiling, a
return, a displacement, a reconstruction of the past, of memory, of
meaning? In the first part of the book, Kristeva examines the
manner in which three of the most unsettling modern writers --
Aragon, Sartre, and Barthes -- affirm their personal rebellion.
In the second part of the book, Kristeva ponders the future of
rebellion. She maintains that the "new world order" is not
favorable to revolt. "What can we revolt against if power is vacant
and values corrupt?" she asks. Not only is political revolt mired
in compromise among parties whose differences are less and less
obvious, but an essential component of European culture -- a
culture of doubt and criticism -- is losing its moral and aesthetic
impact.
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