John Lechte is Associate Professor and Head of Sociology at Macquarie University. He is the author of Key Contemporary Concepts. Maria Margaroni is Assistant Professor in English Literature and Cultural Theory at the University of Cyprus. They are co-editors of The Kristeva Critical Reader.

'...sociologist John Lechte now successfully collaborates with cultural and literary theorist Maria Margaroni to reassess Kristeva's early work and to explore the new directions and socio-political concerns of her more recent work.'   The European Legacy 11, (4): 2006

• 1. Introduction; 2. Music and Life: A foray into language and subjectivity; 3. Overcoming Depression and Horror; 4. A Time for Being and Otherness; 5. Narrating Lives and the Emergence of the 'Who'; 6. Kristeva on Others: Others on Kristeva; 7. Conclusion

John Lechte is Associate Professor and Head of Sociology at Macquarie University. He is the author of Key Contemporary Concepts. Maria Margaroni is Assistant Professor in English Literature and Cultural Theory at the University of Cyprus. They are co-editors of The Kristeva Critical Reader.

'...sociologist John Lechte now successfully collaborates with cultural and literary theorist Maria Margaroni to reassess Kristeva's early work and to explore the new directions and socio-political concerns of her more recent work.'   The European Legacy 11, (4): 2006

• 1. Introduction; 2. Music and Life: A foray into language and subjectivity; 3. Overcoming Depression and Horror; 4. A Time for Being and Otherness; 5. Narrating Lives and the Emergence of the 'Who'; 6. Kristeva on Others: Others on Kristeva; 7. Conclusion