Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Work of Julia Kristeva

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The social and political relevance of Julia Kristeva's work is perhaps the central question in Kristeva studies, and the essays in this collection provide a sustained interrogation of this complicated problematic from a variety of perspectives and across the various contexts and moments of Kristeva's forty-year writing career. Presenting Kristeva's thought as the sustained interrogation of a political problematic, the contributors argue that her use of psychoanalysis and aesthetics offers significant insight into social and political issues that would otherwise remain concealed. The collection addresses the entirety of Kristeva's oeuvre, from her earliest work on poetic language to her most recent work on female genius, and it includes two previously untranslated essays by Kristeva, as well as original contributions from scholars working in several countries and a variety of disciplines.
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Introduction:Politics from ‘a bit of a distance’
S. K. Keltner

Part I. Two Statements by Kristeva

1. A Meditation, a Political Act, an Art of Living
Julia Kristeva, translated by S. K. Keltner

2. Decollations
Julia Kristeva, translated by Caroline Arruda

Part II. The Violence of the Spectacle

3. Meaning against Death
Kelly Oliver

4. Kristeva’s Intimate Revolt and the Thought Specular: Encountering the (Mulholland) Drive
Frances L. Restuccia

5. Julia Kristeva and the Trajectory of the Image
John Lechte

6. The Darkroom of the Soul
Robyn Ferrell

7. Julia Kristeva’s Chiasmatic Journeys:From Byzantium to the Phantom of Europe and the End of the World
Maria Margaroni

Part III. Intimacy and the Loss of Politics

8. Love’s Lost Labors:Subjectivity, Art, and Politics
Sara Beardsworth

9. Symptomatic Reading:Kristeva on Duras
Lisa Walsh

10. What Is Intimacy?
S. K. Keltner

11. Fear of Intimacy? Psychoanalysis and the Resistance to Commodification
Cecilia Sjöholm

12. Humanism, the Rights of Man, and the Nation-State
Emily Zakin

13. Kristeva’s Uncanny Revolution:Imagining the Meaning of Politics
Jeff Edmonds

14. Religion and the “Rights of Man” in Julia Kristeva’s Work
Idit Alphandar

Contributors
Index

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Esthétique et philosophie de l'art

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• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 02 juin 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781438426570
• Langue: English

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Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Work of Kristeva

Edited by Kelly Oliver and S. K. Keltner

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Psychoanalysis, aesthetics, and politics in the work of Julia Kristeva / edited by Kelly Oliver and S. K. Keltner. p. cm. — (Suny series, insinuations) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4384-2649-5 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Kristeva, Julia, 1941— Criticism and interpretation. I. Oliver, Kelly, 1975- II. Keltner, S. K. PN75.K75P79 2009 194—dc22 2008036293

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Contents 

Introduction: Politics from ‘a bit of a distance’ S. K. Keltner

P I. T S K ART WO TATEMENTS BY RISTEVA

1. A Meditation, a Political Act, an Art of Living Julia Kristeva, translated by S. K. Keltner

2. Decollations Julia Kristeva, translated by Caroline Arruda

P II. T V S ART HE IOLENCE OF THE PECTACLE

3. Meaning against Death Kelly Oliver

4. Kristeva’s Intimate Revolt and the Thought Specular: Encountering the (Mulholland) Drive Frances L. Restuccia

5. Julia Kristeva and the Trajectory of the Image John Lechte

6. The Darkroom of the Soul Robyn Ferrell

7. Julia Kristeva’s Chiasmatic Journeys: From Byzantium to the Phantom of Europe and the End of the World Maria Margaroni

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P ART III. I NTIMACY AND THE L OSS OF P OLITICS

8. Love’s Lost Labors: Subjectivity, Art, and Politics Sara Beardsworth

9. Symptomatic Reading: Kristeva on Duras Lisa Walsh

10. What Is Intimacy? S. K. Keltner

11. Fear of Intimacy? Psychoanalysis and the Resistance to Commodification Cecilia Sjöholm

12. Humanism, the Rights of Man, and the Nation-State Emily Zakin

13. Kristeva’s Uncanny Revolution: Imagining the Meaning of Politics Jeff Edmonds

14. Religion and the “Rights of Man” in Julia Kristeva’s Work Idit Alphandary

Contributors

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“A Meditation, a Political Act, an Art of Living” is a translation of the text of Julia Kristeva’s speech to the University of Paris VII Denis Diderot in May 2005. The symposium was organized to celebrate her reception of the presti- gious Holberg Prize in the fall of 2004. A revised version has been published as the first chapter of her most recent collection of essays,La haine et le pardon (Paris: Fayard, 2005). “Decollations” is a translation of a chapter from Kristeva’s Visions capitales(Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1998), the catalog of a museum exhibit that Kristeva organized in the spring and summer of 1998 as part of the Carte Blanche program initiated by the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Louvre. The editors wish to express their gratitude to Julia Kristeva for contributing the text of her speech and for allowing it, along with the selection fromVisions capitales, to be translated for this volume.

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