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Intimate Revolt: The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis

Julia Kristeva

Julia Kristeva, herself a product of the famous May 1968 Paris student uprising, has long been fascinated by the concepts of rebellion and revolution. But is it still possible to build and nurture a culture of revolt in today's world? In this book, Kristeva examines the manner in which three of the most unsettling modern writers--Louis Aragon, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Roland Barthes--affirmed their personal rebellions. She then ponders the future of rebellion, maintaining not only that political revolt is mired in compromise but also that an essential component of European culture--a culture of doubt and criticism--is losing its moral and aesthetic force.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • Publish Date: Jan 14th, 2025
  • Pages: 344
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.77in - 0.96lb
  • EAN: 9780231216777
  • Categories: Movements - DeconstructionSemiotics & TheoryLGBTQ+

About the Author

Kristeva, Julia: - Julia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII. A renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist, she has written dozens of books spanning semiotics, political theory, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique, as well as several novels and autobiographical works, published in English translation by Columbia University Press. Kristeva was the inaugural recipient of the Holberg International Memorial Prize in 2004 "for innovative explorations of questions on the intersection of language, culture, and literature."

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Praise for this book

Kristeva... follows up The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt with this important, interdisciplinary tour de force.-- "Library Journal"
The reader will encounter in these pages the literary music of allusive, profound passages that uniquely characterize the expression of Kristeva's thoughts.-- "Choice"
Kristeva's work is an intricate mix of cultural criticism and psychoanalysis.... Kristeva's call to return to the intimate is salutory in a world given over to the dictates of production and consumption alone. The comments on patriotism, nationalism, hospitality and cosmopolitanism are politically astute and ethically humanist.--Pramod K. Nayar "Philosophy in Review"