Internationally famous philosopher, psychoanalyst, novelist, and cultural critic Julia Kristeva shares her autobiography and also replies to thirty-six outstanding thinkers who discuss and critique her work in this newest volume in the Library of Living Philosophers.
Julia Kristeva is well known for her influential contributions to an unusually wide variety of scholarly fields, including philosophy, linguistics, semiotics, biography, literary criticism, cultural criticism, feminism, and psychoanalysis
Kristeva is the author of over 30 books
Outside of academia, Kristeva is known also as a novelist who authored
The Old Man and the Wolves (English translation,1994),
Murder in Byzantium (English translation, 2006),
Possessions (English translation, 1998), and
The Enchanted Clock (English translation, 2018)
Kristeva is still an active scholar and sought-after speaker: she gave a key address in London in July 2019 at the conference held by the International Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytical Studies Organization and another in Oslo in October 2018 at the Cultural Crossings of Care Conference
This volume contains the first and only translation of Kristeva's acclaimed autobiography, originally published in French in 2016
This volume also contains original replies to the critical and expository essays that were solicited specifically for this book
|
Sara G. Beardsworth is Associate Professor and Editor of the Library of Living Philosophers, Department of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. She is the author of Julia Kristeva: Psychoanalysis and Modernity and co-editor of The Philosophy of Umberto Eco. |
