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  • New Maladies of the Soul

    by Julia Kristeva ...
    Translated by Ross Guberman ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    "These days, who still has a soul?" asks Julia Kristeva in this psychoanalytic exploration*.* Drawing on her many years of experience as a practicing psychoanalyst, Kristeva reveals to readers a new kind of patient, symptomatic of an age of political upheaval, mass mediated culture, and the dramatic overhaul of familial and sexual mores. New Maladies of the Soul poses a troubling question about ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Powers of Horror

    An Essay on Abjection

    by Julia Kristeva ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    In Powers of Horror, Julia Kristeva offers an extensive and profound consideration of the nature of abjection. Drawing on Freud and Lacan, she analyzes the nature of attitudes toward repulsive subjects and examines the function of these topics in the writings of Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and other authors. Kristeva identifies the abject with the eruption of the real and ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Revolution in Poetic Language

    by Julia Kristeva ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    In Revolution in Poetic Language, Julia Kristeva explicates her foundational distinction between the semiotic and the symbolic and explores their interrelationships. Linking the psychosomatic to the literary and the literary to a larger political horizon, she questions the premises of linguistic, psychoanalytic, philosophical, and literary theories. ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Time and Sense

    Proust and the Experience of Literature

    by Julia Kristeva ...
    Translated by Ross Guberman ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    Julia Kristeva’s Time and Sense is a major reassessment of Marcel Proust and In Search of Lost Time. Not only a meditation on Proust, it is also a commentary on how the experience of literature is manifested in time and sensation. Kristeva uses Proust as a starting point to reflect on broader notions of character, time, sensation, metaphor, and history. ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Desire in Language

    A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art

    by Julia Kristeva ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    Desire in Language presents a selection of Julia Kristeva’s essays that trace the path of an investigation, extending over a period of ten years, into the semiotics of literature and the arts. Probing beyond the claims of Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, and others, Kristeva proposes and tests theories centered on the nature and development of the novel, and on what she has defined as a signifying ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death

    or Language Haunted by Sex

    by Julia Kristeva ...
    Translated by Armine Kotin Mortimer ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    Julia Kristeva has been both attracted and repelled by Dostoyevsky since her youth. In this extraordinary book, by turns poetic and intensely personal, she brings her unique critical sensibility to bear on the tormented and visionary Russian author.Kristeva ranges widely across Dostoyevsky’s novels and his journalism, plunging deep into the great works—and many of the smaller ones—to investigate ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • This Incredible Need to Believe

    by Julia Kristeva ...
    Series series European Perspectives
    "A sprawling analysis of religion in major psychological and philosophical literature, fiction and in private life . . . compelling and remarkable."— Publishers Weekly"Unlike Freud, I do not claim that religion is just an illusion and a source of neurosis. The time has come to recognize, without being afraid of 'frightening' either the faithful or the agnostics, that the history of Christianity ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Enchanted Clock

    A Novel

    by Julia Kristeva ...
    In the Palace of Versailles there is a fabulous golden clock, made for Louis XV by the king’s engineer, Claude-Siméon Passemant. The astronomical clock shows the phases of the moon and the movements of the planets, and it will tell time—hours, minutes, seconds, and even sixtieths of seconds—until the year 9999. Passemant’s clock brings the nature of time into sharp focus in Julia Kristeva’s ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt

    The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis

    by Julia Kristeva ...
    Translated by Jeanine Herman ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    Freud and psychoanalysis taught us that rebellion is what guarantees our independence and our creative abilities. But in the contemporary "entertainment" culture, is rebellion still a viable option? Is it still possible to build and embrace a counterculture? For whom—and against what?Julia Kristeva illustrates the advances and impasses of rebel culture through the experiences of three twentieth ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Intimate Revolt

    The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis

    by Julia Kristeva ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    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 ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Passions of Our Time

    by Julia Kristeva ...
    Translated by Constance Borde, Sheila Malovany-Chevallier ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    Julia Kristeva is a true polymath, an intellectual of astonishingly wide range whose erudition and insight have been brought to bear on psychoanalysis, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique. Passions of Our Time showcases recent essays of Kristeva’s that demonstrate the scope of her capacious intellect, her gifts as a stylist, and the profound contribution of her thought to the ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Tales of Love

    by Julia Kristeva ...
    Translated by Leon Roudiez ...
    Julia Kristeva pursues her exploration of the core emotions of the human psyche through a series of philosophical and literary texts. She focuses on the role of narcissism and idealization in the formation of a love object, accounting for the role of the death drive by coining the term “love/hate.” Tales of Love offers illuminating psychoanalytic readings of Thomas Aquinas, courtly romances, Romeo ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD