Powers of Horror

An Essay on Abjection

AvJulia Kristeva

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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

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In Powers of Horror, Julia Kristeva offers an extensive and profound consideration of the nature of abjection. Drawing on Freud and Lacan, she analyzes the nature of attitudes toward repulsive subjects and examines the function of these topics in the writings of Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and other authors. Kristeva identifies the abject with the eruption of the real and the presence of death. She explores how art and religion each offer ways of purifying the abject, arguing that amid abjection, boundaries between subject and object break down.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-02-13
Mått:140 x 216 x 14 mm
Vikt:322 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Columbia University Press
ISBN:9780231214575
Originaltitel:Pouvoirsde l'horreur. Essaisur abjection
Översättare:Leon Roudiez

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Julia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII. A renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist, she has written dozens of books spanning semiotics, political theory, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique, as well as several novels and autobiographical works, published in English translation by Columbia University Press. Kristeva was the inaugural recipient of the Holberg International Memorial Prize in 2004 “for innovative explorations of questions on the intersection of language, culture, and literature.”

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Translator's NoteI. Approaching Abjection2. Something to Be Scared Of3. From Filth to Defilement4. Semiotics of Biblical Abomination5.... Qui Tollis Peccata Mundi6. Céline: Neither Actor nor Martyr7. Suffering and Horror8. Those Females Who Can Wreck the Infinite9. "Ours to Jew or Die"10. In the Beginning and Without End...11. Powers of HorrorNotesIndex