{"product_id":"kristeva-9780745638973","title":"Kristeva","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJulia Kristeva is one of the most creative and prolific writers to address the personal, social, and political trials of our times. Linguist, psychoanalyst, social and cultural theorist, and novelist, Kristeva's broad interdisciplinary appeal has impacted areas across the humanities and social sciences.  S.K.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Keltner's book is highly original, insightful, and promises to change the way scholars have traditionally read Kristeva's work.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKelly Oliver, Vanderbilt University\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \"The book represents an engaging and original interpretation of the entire spectrum of Kristeva's work, including her often overlooked fiction. There are real gems in this manuscript, in particular a terrific and highly original interpretation of Kristeva's theory of intimacy, Oedipus, temporality, as well as of the phenomenological and ontological dimensions of her work, often disregarded by her interpreters. In short, \u003ci\u003eKristeva\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable intellectual achievement.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEwa Ziarek, University at Buffalo\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \"Keltner deftly demonstrates how Kristeva extends phenomenological insights in radically new directions. Her fresh, probing analysis decisively tackles the social and historical significance of Kristeva's Freudian and aesthetic standpoint. A tour de force of Kristeva's highly faceted portrait of Oedipus supports Keltner's excellent and timely elucidation of 'intimate revolt.'\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSara Beardsworth, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, author of \u003ci\u003eJulia Kristeva: Psychoanalysis and Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Thresholds\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: Kristeva's Theory of Meaning and Subjectivity\u003cbr\u003e § The Semiotic and the Symbolic, § From the Symbolic to the Semiotic - The Phenomenological Theory of Meaning, § From the Semiotic to the Symbolic - The Psychoanalytic Theory of Meaning, § The Dialectic of Semiotic and Symbolic\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: Kristeva's Psychoanalytic - Abjection, Love, and Loss\u003cbr\u003e § Kristeva's Theory of Subjective Diachrony, § Powers of Horror, § Tales of Love, § Black Sun, § Abjection, Love, and Loss in the Wake of Symbolic Collapse\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: The Public Stakes of Intimacy\u003cbr\u003e § What Is Intimacy? § Intimacy and the Event of Natality, § Freud's Involution of Intimacy, § Abjection Ð Intimate Suffering\/ Public Horror, § \"Ravaged Intimacy\" and the Event of Death,\" § What's Love Got to Do with It? \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: Intimate Revolt and the Society of the Spectacle\u003cbr\u003e § The Spectacular Horizon of Kristeva's Concept of Revolt, § The Scandal of Timelessness - Kristeva's Phenomenological-Psychoanalytic Concept of Time, § In Search of an Experience - Proustian Revolt, § Sex and Time: The Interminable Revolt of Female Genius\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: So Many Oedipuses, So Little Time\u003cbr\u003e § Reviving Oedipus, § Oedipus is dead, and we have killed him, § The Irony of Antigone, pariah of the sacred, § Anti-Oedipus\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: Kristeva's Novelistic Approach to Social and Political Life\u003cbr\u003e § Homo Spectator, § Detective Fiction: Kristeva's Proper, Specular Inquiry, § Inspector Freud; Dr. Delacour, § My Own Private Byzantium; or, the Odd Future Anterior of Kristeva's Hero\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Politics at the Margin - Kristeva's Wager on the Future of Revolt\u003cbr\u003e Further reading\u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404375368023,"sku":"9780745638973","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745638973.jpg?v=1730486267","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/kristeva-9780745638973","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}