"Revolution in Poetic Language" Fifty Years Later

Emilia Angelova is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Concordia University. She is the editor of The Necessity of Freedom in Hegel: Logic, Phenomenology and Aesthetics.

"…a valuable contribution to Kristevan studies. Not only does it show the variety of opinions on the evolution of Kristeva's thought over the years, especially its politics, it also voices a defense of literature as a force for social change in a world in need of transformation where such defenses are rare." — symplokē"With its intellectual breadth, originality, and erudition, this anthology offers readers far more than a rigorous reevaluation of Revolution in Poetic Language within the corpus of Kristeva's intellectual history. It also critically and imaginatively reconceptualizes Kristeva's text to address the most pressing political, philosophical, and psychoanalytic debates of our own historical moment. A wide range of scholarly communities—including both new and longstanding readers of Kristeva—will find fresh ideas, provocative insights, and critical interventions." — Ewa Plonowska Ziarek, coauthor of Arendt, Natality and Biopolitics: Toward Democratic Plurality and Reproductive Justice

• Editor's AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Revolutionary Practice and the Subject-in-ProcessEmilia AngelovaPart One: Two New Texts by Kristeva 1. Editor's Introduction to Julia Kristeva's "The Impossibility of Loss" (1988)Emilia Angelova2. The Impossibility of LossJulia Kristeva, translated by Elisabeth Paquette3. Of What Use Are Poets in Times of Distress?Julia Kristeva, translated by Elisabeth Paquette and Alice JardinePart Two Beyond Feminism: Engaging Kristeva for Decolonial, Trans, and Disability Studies 4. Julia Kristeva's Maternal Ethics of TendernessKelly Oliver5. Kristeva in a Trans Poetic FrameSid Hansen6. Stranger than Other Strangers: On the Crossroads between Subjectivity and Language in Kristeva and AnzaldúaFanny Söderbäck7. Theories of Poetic Resistance: Julia Kristeva and Sylvia WynterElisabeth Paquette8. Proust among the Patients: Kristeva on Proust, Psychoanalysis, and PoliticsElaine P. MillerPart Three The Evolving Meaning of Ontological Loss: From Revolution to Revolt 9. From Praxis to Chōra: The Filter of (In)Humanization in Julia Kristeva's Early WorkMiglena Nikolchina10. The Mental Image and the Spectacular Imaginary: Kristeva with Lacan and SartreSurti Singh11. Rhythm and the Semiotic in Revolution in Poetic LanguageJohn Montani12. Excription and the Negativity of the Speaking Subject: Reading Kristeva with HeideggerEmilia Angelova13. Kristeva and Arendt on Language, Sanity, and the Sensus CommunisAnne O'ByrneAbout the ContributorsIndex