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Passions of Our Time (Hardcover)
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Passions of Our Time (Hardcover)
Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
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Julia Kristeva is a true polymath, an intellectual of astonishingly
wide range whose erudition and insight have been brought to bear on
psychoanalysis, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural
critique. Passions of Our Time showcases recent essays of
Kristeva's that demonstrate the scope of her capacious intellect,
her gifts as a stylist, and the profound contribution of her
thought to the challenges of the present. The collection begins
with vivid recollection of celebrating, as a child in Bulgaria,
Alphabet Day, the holiday honoring the Cyrillic letters, which
proceeds outward into a contemplation of the writer as translator.
Kristeva considers literature with Barthes, freedom through
Rousseau, Teresa of Avila and mystical experience, Simone de
Beauvoir's dream life, and Antigone and the psychic life of women.
A group of essays drawing on her psychoanalytic work delve into
Freud, Lacan, maternal eroticism, and the continued importance of
psychoanalysis today. In a series of striking investigations, she
thinks through disability and normativity, monotheism and
secularization, the need to believe and the desire to know. Calling
for the courage to renew and reinvent humanism, she outlines the
principles of a stance founded on the importance of respecting
human life. Finally, Kristeva discusses French culture and
diversity, rethinking universalism and interrogating the potential
for Islam and psychoanalysis to meet, and pays homage to Beauvoir
by rephrasing her dictum into the provocative "One is born woman,
but I become one."
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