Julia Kristeva: Psychoanalysis and Modernity (SUNY Series in Gender Theory) - Softcover

Beardsworth, Sara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791461904 ISBN 13: 9780791461907

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2004

Synopsis

A comprehensive examination of Kristeva's work from the seventies to the nineties.

This is the first systematic overview of Julia Kristeva’s vision and work in relation to philosophical modernity. It provides a clear, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary analysis of her thought on psychoanalysis, art, ethics, politics, and feminism in the secular aftermath of religion. Sara Beardsworth shows that Kristeva’s multiple perspectives explore the powers and limits of different discourses as responses to the historical failures of Western cultures, failures that are undergone and disclosed in psychoanalysis.

About this title

About the Author:

Sara Beardsworth is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University.

Review:

"This is the best available study of Kristeva's thought. Beardsworth clearly and cleanly exposes the inner workings of the system of critical thought of this towering intellectual figures. This will become the primary text for understanding--one might even say for constructing--Kristeva's relationship to most of the diverse streams of contemporary feminism."

About this edition

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0791461904
• ISBN 13: 9780791461907
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320