Todor Hristov teaches critical theory at the University of Sofia and biopolitics and governmentality studies at the University of Plovdiv.

Through exquisitely rigorous discourse analysis, Todor Hristov illuminates a genre of conflict that usually happens behind closed doors: the marital quarrel. While recognizing the socially situated nature of such encounters, this book’s primary focus is not anthropological. Rather, drawing on an impressive array of historical, modern, factual, and fictional sources, Critical Theory and Marital Quarrels: Dynamics of Passionate Speech brilliantly illuminates the discursive relations and conditions from which squabbles arise.

• Chapter 1: Marital Quarrels and Discourse AnalysisChapter 2: Contentious KnowledgeChapter 3: Passionate Speech

Todor Hristov teaches critical theory at the University of Sofia and biopolitics and governmentality studies at the University of Plovdiv.

Through exquisitely rigorous discourse analysis, Todor Hristov illuminates a genre of conflict that usually happens behind closed doors: the marital quarrel. While recognizing the socially situated nature of such encounters, this book’s primary focus is not anthropological. Rather, drawing on an impressive array of historical, modern, factual, and fictional sources, Critical Theory and Marital Quarrels: Dynamics of Passionate Speech brilliantly illuminates the discursive relations and conditions from which squabbles arise.

• Chapter 1: Marital Quarrels and Discourse AnalysisChapter 2: Contentious KnowledgeChapter 3: Passionate Speech

Todor Hristov teaches critical theory at the University of Sofia and biopolitics and governmentality studies at the University of Plovdiv.

Through exquisitely rigorous discourse analysis, Todor Hristov illuminates a genre of conflict that usually happens behind closed doors: the marital quarrel. While recognizing the socially situated nature of such encounters, this book’s primary focus is not anthropological. Rather, drawing on an impressive array of historical, modern, factual, and fictional sources, Critical Theory and Marital Quarrels: Dynamics of Passionate Speech brilliantly illuminates the discursive relations and conditions from which squabbles arise.

• Chapter 1: Marital Quarrels and Discourse AnalysisChapter 2: Contentious KnowledgeChapter 3: Passionate Speech