Strangers to Ourselves

AvJulia Kristeva

Häftad, Engelska, 1991

Del i serien European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism

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This book is concerned with the notion of the "stranger" -the foreigner, outsider, or alien in a country and society not their own- as well as the notion of strangeness within the self -a person's deep sense of being, as distinct from outside appearance and their conscious idea of self. Kristeva begins with the personal and moves outward by examining world literature and philosophy. She discusses the foreigner in Greek tragedy, in the Bible, and in the literature of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Enlightenment, and the twentieth century. She discusses the legal status of foreigners throughout history, gaining perspective on our own civilization. Her insights into the problems of nationality, particularly in France are more timely and relevant in an increasingly integrated and fractious world.

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Utgivningsdatum:1991-06-10
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Antal sidor:230
Förlag:Columbia University Press
ISBN:9780231071574
Översättare:Roudiez, Leon

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Julia Kristeva is a leading French intellectual, practicing psychoanalyst, and Professor of Linguistics at the Universite de Paris VII. Columbia University Press has published other books by Kristeva in English: In the Beginning Was Love, Tales of Love, Revolution in Poetic Language, Powers of Horror, Desire in Language, Black Sun, Language: The Unknown, and The Kristeva Reader.

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Kristeva suggests that the antidote to xenophobia, racism and other weapons against outsiders is to recognize that "the foreigner is within us." [The book] demonstrates her amazing command of history, politics, literature, linguistics, and psychology...argues powerfully for a radical examination of self, beginning with the realization that what is most fearful to us in the stranger may be the very quality we do not want to recognize in ourselves. Only through this reconciliation with our estranged self, Kristeva asserts, can we begin to give fair treatment to others. San Fransisco Examiner-Chronicle

Innehållsförteckning

1 Toccata and Fugue for the Foreigner 2 The Greeks Among Barbarians, Suppliants, and Metics 3 The Chosen People and the Choice of Foreignness 4 Paul and Augustine: The Therapeutics of Exile and Pilgrimage 5 By What Right are Are You a Foreigner? 6 The Renaissance, "So Shapeless and Diverse in Composition" 7 On Foreigners and the Enlightenment 8 Might Not Universality Be... Our Own Foreignness? 9 In Practice... Index

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Johannes Nordholm, Peter Handke, Mikaela Blomqvist, Johan Linton, Peter Josepson, Wladimir Granoff, Jean Clavreul, Per Magnus Johansson, Julia Kristeva, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Ola Sigurdson, Lennart Sjögren, Ann Lingebrandt, UKON