The Kristeva Reader

by Julia Kristeva, Toril Moi

Overview

Julia Kristeva is one of Europe's most brilliant and original theorists, widely acclaimed for her work in such diverse areas as linguistics, psychoanalysis, and literary and political theory. As a linguist, she has pioneered a revolutionary theory of the sign in its relation to social and political emancipation; as a practicing psychoanalyst, she has produced work on the nature of the human subject and sexuality of particular interest of feminists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231063241
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	11/19/1986
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Julia Kristeva, internationally known psychoanalyst and critic, is Professor of Linguistics at the University de Paris VII. She has hosted a French television series and is the author of many critically acclaimed books published by Columbia University Press in translation, including Time and Sense: Proust and the Experience of Literature and the novel, Possessions.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Linguistics, Semiotics, Textuality
1. The System and the Speaking Subject
2. Word, Dialogue and Novel
3. From Symbol to Sign
4. Semiotics: A Critical Science and/or a Critique of Science
5. Revolution in Poetic Language
Part 2: Women, Psychoanalysis, Politics
6. About Chinese Women
7. Stabat Mater
8. Women's Time
9. The True-Real
10. Freud and Love: Treatment and Its Discontents
11. Why the United States?
12. A New Type of Intellectual: The Dissident
13. Psychoanalysis and the Polis

Editorial Reviews

It has been apprarent for some time that Julia Kristeva has inherited the intellectual throne left vacant by the death of Simone de Beauvoir.

Elaine Showalter