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Book SynopsisInternationally famous philosopher, psychoanalyst, novelist, and cultural critic Julia Kristeva shares her autobiography and also replies to thirty-six outstanding thinkers who discuss and critique her work in this newest volume in the Library of Living Philosophers.
Table of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTS Frontispiece General Introduction to the Library of Living Philosophers Founder’s General Introduction to the Library of Living Philosophers Advisory Board Preface PART ONE: Intellectual Autobiography of Julia Kristeva Sample of Kristeva’s Handwriting Intellectual Autobiography of Julia Kristeva: Je me voyage, A Journey Across Borders and Through Identities PART TWO: DESCRIPTIVE AND CRITICAL ESSAYS ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF JULIA KRISTEVA WITH REPLIES I. Language and Semiotics 1. Dominique Ducard: The Semiotic Chora and the Inner Life of Language 2. John Lechte: Language, Literature, and the Founding Murder in the Work of Julia Kristeva 3. Eléana Mylona: Julia Kristeva Between the Semiotic and the Symbolic: The Process of Significance Reply to Dominique Ducard, John Lechte, and Eléana Mylona II. Theory of Literature 4. Marian Hobson: Julia Kristeva’s Farewell to Philosophy 5. Miglena Nikolchina: Signifiance and Transubstantiation: The Returns of the Avant-Garde in Kristeva’s Philosophy of Literature 6. Maria Margaroni: Artaud’s Madness and the Literary Obscene: Humanism and Its Double in Julia Kristeva 7. Philippe Forest: Birth of the Novel, Yesterday and Today Reply to Marian Hobson, Miglena Nikolchina, Maria Margaroni, and Philippe Forest III. Psychoanalysis 8. Bernard Brusset: Julia Kristeva: Original and Innovative Contributions at The Core of Psychoanalytic Theory 9. Jean-Louis Baldacci: Abjection, Reliance, and Sublimation 10. Jean-François Rabain: Julia Kristeva, Reader of Aragon Reply to Bernard Brusset, Jean-Louis Baldacci, and Jean-François Rabain IV. Art and Aesthetics 11. Anish Kapoor: Dear Julia 12. Elaine P. Miller: Julia Kristeva on the Severed Head and Other Maternal “Capital Visions” 13. Carin Franzén: An Antidote to the Crisis of Contemporary Culture: Rereading Kristeva on Duras 14. Françoise Coblence: Aesthetics According to Julia Kristeva Reply to Anish Kapoor, Elaine P. Miller, Carin Franzén, and Françoise Coblence V. Philosophy in the Novels 15. David Uhrig: No Present Apart 16. Pierre-Louis Fort: Julia Kristeva and the Detective Novel: Fiction and Metaphysics Reply to David Uhrig and Pierre-Louis Fort VI. Melancholy, Love, and the Sacred 17. Edward S. Casey: Depression: Heading Down and Out 18. Alina Feld: Melancholia: Passing Through and Beyond 19. Michal Ben-Naftali: A Baroque Reading of Tales of Love 20. Keren Mock: Language and Sacredness in the Quest for Subjectivity Reply to Edward S. Casey, Alina N. Feld, Michal Ben-Naftali, and Keren Mock VII. Desire, Knowledge, and Belief 21. Robert Harvey: Of Incredibility in the Need to Believe: A Philosophical Exploration 22. Alain Delaye: The Need to Believe and the Desire to Know Reply to Robert Harvey and Alain Delaye VIII. Theory of Revolt 23. Emilia Angelova: Abjection and the Maternal Semiotic in Kristeva’s Intimate Revolt 24. Sarah K. Hansen: Intimate Revolt at the Margins of Community and the Hope of Postcoloniality 25. Daniel Cohn-Bendit: Hannah Arendt Prize Speech 2006 Reply to Emilia Angelova, Sarah K. Hansen, and Daniel Cohn-Bendit IX. Maternity and Maternal Reliance 26. Rosemary Balsam: The Controversial Nature of Kristeva’s “Maternal Reliance” 27. Rachel Boué-Widawsky: Maternal Eroticism and the Journey of a Concept in Kristeva’s Work 28. Fanny Söderbäck: Maternal Enigmas: Kristeva and the Paradoxes of Motherhood Reply to Rosemary Balsam, Rachel Boué-Widawsky, and Fanny Söderbäck X. Philosophy of Public Health 29. Charles Gardou: The “Intimate Face” of a Common Thought and Action 30. Eivind Engebretsen: Evidence-Based Medicine and the Irreducible Singularity of Being: Kristeva’s Contribution to the Medical Humanities 31. Marie-Rose Moro: The Polyglot Imaginary, a Poetics, and a Clinic 32. Jean Vanier: “Their Look Pierces Our Shadows” Reply to Charles Gardou, Eivind Engebretsen, Marie-Rose Moro, and Jean Vanier XI. Ethics and Politics 33. Cecilia Sjöholm: From Denial to Forgiveness: Kristeva, Arendt, and Radicalization 34. Ewa Ziarek: A Materialist Ethics of Psychoanalysis? Reflections on Matter, Forgiveness, and Vulnerability 35. Noëlle McAfee: Kristeva’s Latent Political Theory 36. Kelly Oliver: The Democracy of Proximity and Kristeva’s New Humanism Reply to Cecilia Sjöholm, Ewa Ziarek, Noëlle McAfee, and Kelly Oliver PART THREE: Bibliography of the Writings of Julia Kristeva Index
