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Black Sun by Julia Kristeva (Professor of Linguistics, Universite de Paris VII, France)
$48.95 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
In Black Sun, Julia Kristeva addresses the subject of melancholia, examining this phenomenon in the context of art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and culture, as well as psychoanalysis. She describes the depressive as one who perceives the sense of self as a crucial pursuit and a nearl ...Show more
Hannah Arendt by Julia Kristeva; Ross Guberman (Translator)
$69.99 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: European Perspectives: a Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism Ser.
Twenty-five years after her death, we are still coming to terms with the controversial figure of Hannah Arendt. Interlacing the life and work of this seminal twentieth-century philosopher, Julia Kristeva provides us with an elegant, sophisticated biography brimming with historical and philosophical insi ...Show more
Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche by Luce Irigaray; Gillian C. Gill
$53.99 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Published in France in 1980, Marine Lover is the first in a trilogy in which Luce Irigaray links the interrogation of the feminine in post-Hegelian philosophy with a pre-Socratic investigation of the elements. Irigaray undertakes to interrogate Nietzche, the grandfather of poststructuralist philosophy, ...Show more
Notes to Literature by Theodor W. Adorno; Paul Kottman (Introduction by)
$87.00 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Notes to Literature is a collection of the great social theorist Theodor W. Adorno's essays on such writers as Mann, Bloch, Hölderlin, Siegfried Kracauer, Goethe, Benjamin, and Stefan George. It also includes his reflections on a variety of subjects, such as literary titles, the physical qualities of bo ...Show more
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection by Julia Kristeva
$62.00 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: European Perspectives: a Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism Ser.
Powers of Horror is an excellent introduction to an aspect of contemporary French literature which has been allowed to become somewhat neglected in the current emphasis on para-philosophical modes of discourse."
Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences by Louis Althusser; Pascale Gillot (Foreword by); Steven Rendall (Translator)
$42.95 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: European Perspectives: a Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism Ser.
What can psychoanalysis, a psychological approach developed more than a century ago, offer us in an age of rapidly evolving, hard-to-categorize ideas of sexuality and the self? Should we abandon Freud's theories completely or adapt them to new findings and the new relationships taking shape in modern li ...Show more
The Incredible Need To Believe by KRISTEVA JULIA
$29.99 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
"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 prepared the world for humanism." So writes Julia Kristeva in this provoc ...Show more
White Ink - Interviews on Sex, Text, and Politics by Susan Sellers (Editor); Steven Gerrard (Contribution by); Hélène Cixous
$61.00 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
These interviews with H l ne Cixous offer invaluable insight into her philosophy and criticism. Culled from newspapers, journals, and books, White Ink collects the best of these conversations, which address the major concerns of Cixous's critical work and features two dialogues with twentieth-century in ...Show more
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