Julia kristeva philosophy meaning

Table 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, Conversation with Samuel Dock



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. EléanaMylona: Julia Kristeva Between the Semiotic and the Symbolic: The Process of Significance


Reply to Dominique Ducard, John Lechte, and EléanaMylona



II. Theory of Literature



4. Marian Hobson: Julia Kristeva’s Farewell to Philosophy

5. MiglenaNikolchina: 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, MiglenaNikolchina, 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.AnishKapoor: Dear Julia

12. Elaine P. Miller: Julia Kristeva on the Severed Head and Other Maternal “Capital Visions”

13. CarinFranzén: An Antidote to the Crisis of Contemporary Culture: Rereading Kristeva on Duras

14. Françoise Coblence: Aesthetics According to Julia Kristeva


Reply to AnishKapoor, Elaine P. Miller, CarinFranzén, 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. EivindEngebretsen: 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, EivindEngebretsen, Marie-Rose Moro, and Jean Vanier



XI. Ethics and Politics



33. Cecilia Sjöholm: From Denial to Forgiveness: Kristeva, Arendt, and Radicalization

34. EwaZiarek: 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, EwaZiarek, Noëlle McAfee, and Kelly Oliver




PART THREE: Bibliography of the Writings of Julia Kristeva



Index