Julia Kristeva  

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“Nowhere is one more a foreigner than in France. Having neither the tolerance of Anglo-American Protestants, nor the absorbent ease of Latin Americans, nor the rejecting as well as assimilating curiosity of the Germans or Slavs, the French set a compact social texture and an unbeatable national pride against foreigners." --Strangers to Ourselves, 1991, Julia Kristeva


"Anthropologists, since Sir James George Frazer, W. Robertson Smith, Arnold van Gennep, and Alfred Reginald Radcliff-Brown, or Rudolf Steiner, have noted that secular "filth," which has become sacred "defilement," is the excluded on the basis of which religious prohibition is made up."--Powers of Horror - An Essay on Abjection (1982) by Julia Kristeva

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Julia Kristeva (born 24 June 1941) is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalyst, feminist, and, most recently, novelist, best known for her essay Powers of Horror - An Essay on Abjection.

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Biography

She has lived in France since the mid-1960s. Kristeva has become influential in today's critical analysis and cultural theory after publishing her first book Semeiotikè in 1969. Her immense body of work includes books, essays and preface publications of architectural importance, which include the notions of intertextuality, the semiotic, and abjection, for the fields of linguistics, literary theory and criticism, psychoanalysis, biography and autobiography, political and cultural analysis, art and art history. Together with Barthes, Todorov, Goldmann, Genette, Lévi-Strauss, Lacan, Greimas, Foucault, and Althusser, she stands as one of the forefront structuralists, in that time when structuralism took major place in humanities. Her works also have an important place in post-structuralist thought.

Selected writings

  • Séméiôtiké: recherches pour une sémanalyse, Paris: Edition du Seuil, 1969. (English translation: Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art. Oxford: Blackwell, 1980.)
  • La Révolution Du Langage Poétique: L'avant-Garde À La Fin Du Xixe Siècle, Lautréamont Et Mallarmé. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1974. (Abridged English translation: Revolution in Poetic Language, New York: Columbia University Press, 1984.)
  • About Chinese Women. London: Boyars, 1977.
  • Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982.
  • The Kristeva Reader. (ed. Toril Moi) Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986.
  • In the Beginning Was Love: Psychoanalysis and Faith. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987.
  • Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.
  • Nations without Nationalism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.
  • New Maladies of the Soul. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.
  • "Experiencing the Phallus as Extraneous." parallax issue 8, 1998.
  • Crisis of the European Subject. New York: Other Press, 2000.
  • Reading the Bible. In: David Jobling, Tina Pippin & Ronald Schleifer (eds). The Postmodern Bible Reader. (pp. 92–101). Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.
  • Female Genius: Life, Madness, Words: Hannah Arendt, Melanie Klein, Colette: A Trilogy. 3 vols. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.
  • Strangers to Ourselves. New York: Columbia University Press,1991
  • Hannah Arendt: Life is a Narrative. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001.
  • Hatred and Forgiveness. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.
  • The Severed Head: Capital Visions. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.

Other books on Julia Kristeva:

  • Jennifer Radden, The Nature of Melancholy: From Aristotle to Kristeva, Oxford University Press, 2000.
  • Megan Becker-Leckrone, Julia Kristeva And Literary Theory, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
  • Sara Beardsworth, Julia Kristeva, Psychoanalysis and Modernity, Suny Press, 2004. (2006 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship for the best book published in 2004)
  • Kelly Ives, Julia Kristeva: Art, Love, Melancholy, Philosophy, Semiotics and Psychoanalysis, Crescent Moon Publishing Édition, 2010.
  • Kelly Oliver, Ethics, Politics, and Difference in Julia Kristeva's Writing, Routledge Édition, 1993.
  • Kelly Oliver, Reading Kristeva: Unraveling the Double-bind, Indiana University Press, 1993.
  • John Lechte, Maria Margaroni, Julia Kristeva: Live Theory , Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd, 2005.
  • Noëlle McAfee, Julia Kristeva, Routledge, 2003.
  • Griselda Pollock (Guest Editor) Julia Kristeva 1966-1996, Parallax Issue 8, 1998.
  • Anna Smith, Julia Kristeva: Readings of Exile and Estrangement, Palgrave Macmillan, 1996.
  • David Crownfield, Body/Text in Julia Kristeva: Religion, Women, and Psychoanalysis, State University of New York Press, 1992

Novels

  • The Samurai: A Novel. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992.
  • The Old Man and the Wolves. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.
  • Possessions: A Novel. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
  • Murder in Byzantium. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.

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