
Passions of Our Time
By: Julia Kristeva, Constance Borde (Translator), Sheila Malovany-Chevallier (Translator)
Paperback | 4 March 2025 | Edition Number 1
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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 challenges of the present.
The collection begins with а vivid recollection of celebrating, as a child in Bulgaria, Alphabet Day, the holiday honoring the Cyrillic letters, which proceeds outward into a contemplation of the writer as translator. Kristeva considers literature with Barthes, freedom through Rousseau, Teresa of Avila and mystical experience, Simone de Beauvoir's dream life, and Antigone and the psychic life of women. A group of essays drawing on her psychoanalytic work delve into Freud, Lacan, maternal eroticism, and the continued importance of psychoanalysis today. In a series of striking investigations, she thinks through disability and normativity, monotheism and secularization, the need to believe and the desire to know. Calling for the courage to renew and reinvent humanism, she outlines the principles of a stance founded on the importance of respecting human life. Finally, Kristeva discusses French culture and diversity, rethinking universalism and interrogating the potential for Islam and psychoanalysis to meet, and pays homage to Beauvoir by rephrasing her dictum into the provocative "One is born woman, but I become one."
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The essays and interviews in Passions of Our Time not only thoughtfully extend and develop some of Kristeva's seminal ideas but also brilliantly address pressing contemporary issues, such as changing notions of motherhood, fatherhood, disability, and sexuality, and powerfully demonstrate that psychoanalysis is still relevant today. This volume makes it clear why Julia Kristeva is one of the most important cultural critics of our time. -- Kelly Oliver, author of Reading Kristeva: Unraveling the Double-Bind
Kristeva's scope is both international and cross-cultural, reaching as far as China, and as close to Western experiences as suburbia's socioeconomic decline. * Library Journal *
Amazingly multifaceted. . . . Kristeva marks a new baseline for understanding in the humanities. * The European Legacy *
ISBN: 9780231218993
ISBN-10: 0231218990
Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Available: 4th March 2025
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 424
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 21.59 x 13.96
Weight (kg): 0.53
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