Kristeva and the Political

Produktbeschreibung zu Kristeva and the Political

Julia Kristeva is one of the most influential French thinkers of the twentieth century and is best known for her work in linguistics. Even though her work has been very influential, the political implications of her writings have so far been neglected. Kristeva and the Political is the first book to explore the relation of Kristeva's work to the political and casts new light on her work, connecting her to recent developments in literary theory, political theory, and cultural studies. In particular it shows how Kristeva's account of the unconscious and psychoanalysis generally, widens the notion of the political.

Each chapter introduces a fundamental theme in Kristeva's work, highlighting a specific period of development in her thought and drawing on texts from the 1960s through to the 1990s. Themes addressed include Kristeva's theory of discourse, the theory of the subject, the notion of alterity, feminism and marginality and her theory known as the 'politics of meaning'. Kristeva and the Political also shows how Kristeva's notions of the political draw on a rich array of thinkers and writers, from Freud, Melanie Klein and Lacan, to Proust and Marguerite Duras.

Julia Kristeva is one of the most influential French thinkers of the last century, best known for her work in linguistics, feminist theory and psychoanalysis. This is the first book to assess the relation of her work to politics and the political.

Produktinformation

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Sodertorns University College, Sweden

Inhaltsangabe

1. A Revolution Between Pleasure and Sacrifice Materialism and Marxism From Marxism to Maoism to Freud; the fourth term of the dialectic Considerations of non-representability A revolution between pleasure and sacrifice 2. A Theorist Aesthetics From terrorism to theorism The unconscious and the question of emancipation From negation to negativity Femininity as dissidence The impossibility of feminine desire: the mother 3. Love and the Question of Identity: From Recognition to Einfuhlung Kristeva's hollow universalism Porous identities - beyond recognition Love
recognition
Einfuhlung Reviving a non-secular ethicity 4. Body Politics: Pleasure
abjection
contamination Challenging the socio-symbollic contract The pleasure of women The body of fantasy Abjection: an aesthetics of contamination Hating your country Subversion of the body: The Idiots Jouissance of the stranger 5. Revolutions of Our Time: Revolt as return Revolt and return The time of the revolt Limits of representability: the beheading Displacing dialectics Bibliography