The Philosophy of French Intellectual Julia Kristeva

FAIN: RZ-260683-18

Southern Illinois University (Carbondale, IL 62901-4302)
Sara G. Beardsworth (Project Director: November 2017 to January 2022)
Julia Kristeva (Co Project Director: November 2017 to January 2022)

Preparation for publication, in both print and digital editions, of a volume of essays devoted to the thought of the French philosopher, psychoanalyst, feminist theorist, and novelist Julia Kristeva. (36 months)

A collaboration of about 30 scholars will relate an oeuvre of major contemporary intellectual significance to public concerns through interdisciplinary dialogue. Julia Kristeva’s multidisciplinary thought in philosophy, literature, feminist theory, and psychoanalysis unifies the collaboration. Her intellectual autobiography will provide general access to the scholarly dialogue. The dialogue, composed of essays by her foremost interpreters and critics together with her replies, will interpret, question, and extend the theoretical writings. It will address contemporary intellectual and cultural movements. It will discuss Kristeva’s public works on disability, health, and motherhood. The only published full bibliography will provide access to the original writings. The project is designed to stimulate further multidisciplinary scholarship and provide models for bringing the humanities to a general audience. The book will be the next volume in the Library of Living Philosophers series.

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The Philosophy of Julia Kristeva (Book)
Title: The Philosophy of Julia Kristeva
Editor: Sara Beardsworth
Abstract: The Philosophy of Julia Kristeva is volume 36 in The Library of Living Philosophers. The volume covers the extraordinary breadth of one of the seminal thinkers of her generation, from linguistics and literature to psychoanalysis, religion, public health, maternity, ethics, and politics. Kristeva has extended semiotics through the notions of intertextuality, dialogism, and semanalysis. Her readings of Plato, Hegel, Heidegger, Sartre, and Arendt, among others, enrich the encounters in psychoanalysis and literature across a broad front. Her search for a new humanist vision both keeps a stake in Enlightenment thinkers and redraws the philosophical and psychoanalytic paths of what has come to be known as "negativity," opening up investigations that resonate with the crises humanity is facing in our times. This volume represents and extends the full range of the life's work, containing thirty-six interpretive and critical essays by leading thinkers of today and experts on Kristeva's work, together with Kristeva's replies to the essays, her autobiographical reflections in interviews with Samuel Dock, and a full Kristeva bibliography.
Year: 2020
Primary URL: http://www.opencourtbooks.com
Primary URL Description: Publisher's website
Secondary URL: https://cola.siu.edu/philosophy/llp/volumes/kristeva.php
Secondary URL Description: Website of The Library of Living Philosophers
Access Model: Open access
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company
Type: Multi-author monograph
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 9780812694895
Copy sent to NEH?: No

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