At the risk of thinking : an intellectual biography of Julia Kristeva / Alice Jardine ; edited by Mari Ruti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jardine, Alice, author.

Contributor:

Ruti, Mari, editor.

Series:

Psychoanalytic horizons

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kristeva, Julia, 1941-.

Kristeva, Julia.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 385 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Summary:

"The first biography of Julia Kristeva-one of the most important intellectuals of the last 100 years. It connects her personal journey with the history of her ideas, clarifies her legacy within the context of postwar European thought, and demonstrates her crucial importance for the future of interdisciplinary thought"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I Bulgaria, My Suffering (1941-1965) p. 21

A Production of History p. 21

Stoyan Kristev p. 28

All My Childhood Was Bathed in This p. 33

Kristina Kristeva p. 36

One Spoonful at a Time p. 40

I Didn't Want to Take Care of All That p. 45

The Journalist p. 49

Pure Oxygen p. 53

The Writer p. 57

Sputnik or the New Novel p. 59

Endings, Beginnings p. 61

Part II The Crazy Truth of It (1965-1979) p. 63

Early Exile p. 64

The Lost Territory p. 68

Tzvetan Stoyanov p. 75

Mentors and a Doctorate p. 80

Philippe Sollers p. 88

Tel Quel p. 92

Resurrections p. 96

Sit Down! Sit Down! p. 98

Dominique Rolin p. 104

Multiverses p. 111

Beneath the Paving Stones p. 116

Semiotike (1969) p. 117

Language, the Unknown (1969) p. 120

Émile Benveniste p. 122

The Text of the Novel (1970) p. 128

Use Barande p. 129

Revolution in Poetic Language (1974) p. 134

The Pedagogical Imperative p. 141

The Desire for China p. 143

About Chinese Women (1974) p. 149

The Intimate Acts of the Modern Personality p. 153

David p. 157

Compartmentalizing p. 161

Reliance: An Ethic of Care p. 165

The Crossing of Signs (1975) p. 169

New York City p. 170

The Dissident p. 172

Polylogue (1977) p. 175

Crazy Truth (1979) p. 179

Part III Becoming Julia Kristeva (1980-Today) p. 183

A Vertical Present p. 183

Yes, Yes, of Course, but What Shall We Do Now? p. 187

Death, That Strange Voice ... p. 188

1 The 1980s: Strangers to Ourselves and Others p. 189

Ça continue: Work, Family, the Ile de Ré p. 190

Whatever Happens to Me, That's What I Write About p. 192

Questions of Civilization Cannot Be Managed by Politics p. 194

Powers of Horror (1980) p. 194

Tales of Love (1983) p. 197

In the Beginning Was Love (1985) p. 198

Black Sun (1987) p. 200

Strangers to Ourselves (1988) p. 201

And Yet, It's up to Women ... p. 204

If You Could Just Die ... p. 205

2 The 1990s: Revolt, She Said p. 208

Accolades and Accusations p. 210

New Directions: Fiction and Revolt p. 212

Thinking Through the Novel p. 213

The Samurai (1990) p. 215

The Old Man and the Wolves (1991) p. 216

Possessions (1996) p. 218

Time and Sense (1994) p. 220

Revolt After the Revolution p. 222

New Maladies of the Soul (1993) p. 223

The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt (1996) p. 224

Intimate Revolt (1997) p. 225

The Future of Revolt (1998) p. 225

Nations Without Nationalism (1990) p. 226

Revolt, She Said (1998) p. 227

The Severed Head (1998) p. 228

Transcend Yourself! p. 229

The Feminine and the Sacred (1998) p. 231

Hannah Arendt (1999) p. 233

I Cannot See Any Light... p. 236

3 The 2000s: An Intellectual Who Works on the Invisible p. 237

Against Cynicism p. 239

I Can Only Rely on My Own Strengths p. 240

Psychoanalysis Is a Humanism p. 245

Singular Universalism and Human Rights p. 247

Crisis of the European Subject (2000) p. 249

At the Risk of Thought (2001) p. 250

Micropolitics (2001) p. 251

Chronicles of a Sensitive Time (2003) p. 251

Open letter to the President (2003) p. 252

Their Look Pierces Our Shadows (2011) p. 255

Murder in Byzantium (2004) p. 257

Hatred and Forgiveness (2005) p. 260

Alone, a Woman (2007) p. 262

Melanie Klein (2000) p. 264

Colette (2002) p. 265

Teresa, My Love (2008) p. 267

This Incredible Need to Believe (2007) p. 269

Reinventing Secular Humanism p. 271

The "French Death of God Theologian" p. 273

The Crisis of Ideality p. 274

Teresa, Our Contemporary p. 277

Representing the Atheists of the World p. 279

4 The 2010s: Traveling Through Myself p. 281

No One Owns the Truth p. 282

The Why Rather than the How p. 286

No One Pays Attention to the Political Until It Feels Spiritual p. 290

Perpetual Motion p. 293

Beauvoir Presents/In the Present (2016) p. 296

Passions of Our Time (2013) p. 297

The Enchanted Clock (2015) p. 297

It's a True Nightmare or a Pitiful Farce, I'm Not Sure Which... p. 299

Who's Afraid of Julia Kristeva? p. 306

A Violence that Reaches the Heart p. 309

It's Just Not My Life ... p. 313.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Jardine, Alice A., At the risk of thinking

ISBN:

9781501341342

1501341340

9781501341335

1501341332

OCLC:

1088683300