Julia Kristeva: Psychoanalysis and ModernityHonorable Mention, 2006 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship presented by the Section on Psychoanalysis of the Canadian Psychological Association 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. |
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From the Revolutionary Standpoint to the Nihilism Problematic | 23 |
Religion and Art Kristevas Minor Histories of Modernity | 113 |
The Social and Political Implications of Kristevas Thought | 167 |
Revolt Culture and Exemplary Lives | 267 |
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