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.”

[An] important, interdisciplinary tour de force.

• Translator’s AcknowledgmentsPart I. Intimate Revolt1. What Revolt Today?2. Can Forgiveness Heal?3. The Scandal of the Timeless4. The Intimate: From Sense to the Sensible (Logics, Jouissance, Style)5. Fantasy and Cinema6. Barthes: The Savor of Disenchantment7. Barthes: Constructor of Language, Constructor of the Sensory8. Barthes: The Intractable Lover9. Sartre: The Imaginary and Nothingness10. Sartre: Freedom as Questioning11. Sartre: Again, the Imaginary, Fantasy, Spectacle12. Aragon: Blanche ou l’oubli; or, “The Farcical and Ferocious Quest for a Consciousness”Part II. The Future of RevoltPreface13. Psychoanalysis and Freedom14. The Love of Another Language15. Europhilia-EurophobiaNotesIndex

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.”

[An] important, interdisciplinary tour de force.

• Translator’s AcknowledgmentsPart I. Intimate Revolt1. What Revolt Today?2. Can Forgiveness Heal?3. The Scandal of the Timeless4. The Intimate: From Sense to the Sensible (Logics, Jouissance, Style)5. Fantasy and Cinema6. Barthes: The Savor of Disenchantment7. Barthes: Constructor of Language, Constructor of the Sensory8. Barthes: The Intractable Lover9. Sartre: The Imaginary and Nothingness10. Sartre: Freedom as Questioning11. Sartre: Again, the Imaginary, Fantasy, Spectacle12. Aragon: Blanche ou l’oubli; or, “The Farcical and Ferocious Quest for a Consciousness”Part II. The Future of RevoltPreface13. Psychoanalysis and Freedom14. The Love of Another Language15. Europhilia-EurophobiaNotesIndex

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.”

[An] important, interdisciplinary tour de force.

• Translator’s AcknowledgmentsPart I. Intimate Revolt1. What Revolt Today?2. Can Forgiveness Heal?3. The Scandal of the Timeless4. The Intimate: From Sense to the Sensible (Logics, Jouissance, Style)5. Fantasy and Cinema6. Barthes: The Savor of Disenchantment7. Barthes: Constructor of Language, Constructor of the Sensory8. Barthes: The Intractable Lover9. Sartre: The Imaginary and Nothingness10. Sartre: Freedom as Questioning11. Sartre: Again, the Imaginary, Fantasy, Spectacle12. Aragon: Blanche ou l’oubli; or, “The Farcical and Ferocious Quest for a Consciousness”Part II. The Future of RevoltPreface13. Psychoanalysis and Freedom14. The Love of Another Language15. Europhilia-EurophobiaNotesIndex