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One of the twentieth centurys most brilliant and unconventional thinkers, Alexandre Kojve was a Russian migr to France whose lectures on Hegel in the 1930s galvanized a generation of French intellectuals. Although Kojve wrote a great deal, he publ...

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One of the twentieth centurys most brilliant and unconventional thinkers, Alexandre Kojve was a Russian migr to France whose lectures on Hegel in the 1930s galvanized a generation of French intellectuals. Although Kojve wrote a great deal, he publ...

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"We found so much to say, to share, to learn...For it wasn't just the Marquis de Sade profile and the sporty thighs-and-calves that seduced me. It was even more, perhaps, or certainly just as much, the speed at which you used to read, an...

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In the Palace of Versailles there is a fabulous golden clock, made for Louis XV by the kings engineer, Claude-Simon Passemant. The astronomical clock shows the phases of the moon and the movements of the planets, and it will tell timehours, minute...

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Growing up in Bulgaria, Julia Kristeva was warned by her father not to read Dostoyevsky. Of course, and as usual, she recalls, I disobeyed paternal orders and plunged into Dosto. Dazzled, overwhelmed, engulfed. Kristeva would go on to become one o...

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Today, history is increasingly written in the first person. A growing number of historical works include an autobiographical dimension, as if writing about the past required exploring the inner life of the author. Neither traditional history nor a...

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Each of us has his tastes inscribed in his brain and heart; whether he fulfills his urges with regret or with joy, he must fulfill them. He should let others act according to their own nature. Its fate that creates us and guides us throughout our ...

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Each of us has his tastes inscribed in his brain and heart; whether he fulfills his urges with regret or with joy, he must fulfill them. He should let others act according to their own nature. Its fate that creates us and guides us throughout our ...

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Julia Kristeva has been both attracted and repelled by Dostoyevsky since her youth. In this extraordinary book, by turns poetic and intensely personal, she brings her unique critical sensibility to bear on the tormented and visionary Russian autho...

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Julia Kristeva examines melancholia across art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and culture, and psychoanalysis. She describes the depressive as one who perceives the sense of self as a crucial pursuit and a nearly unattainable goa...

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Desire in Language presents a selection of Julia Kristevas essays that trace the path of an investigation, extending over a period of ten years, into the semiotics of literature and the arts. Probing beyond the claims of Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lac...

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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 ...

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In Revolution in Poetic Language, Julia Kristeva explicates her foundational distinction between the semiotic and the symbolic and explores their interrelationships. Linking the psychosomatic to the literary and the literary to a larger political ...

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This book is concerned with the notion of the strangerthe foreigner, outsider, or alien in a country and society not their ownas well as the notion of strangeness within the self, a persons deep sense of being, as distinct from outside appearance ...

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The second volume in Simone de Beauvoirs celebrated autobiography recalls her formative years in Paris when she began to emerge as a public figure First published in 1960, The Prime of Life offers an intimate, captivating picture of Simone de Beau...

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Major study in literary theory, criticism and psychology.

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In his discussion of the controversial French writer Sollers, Barthes raises critical issues of central importance - such as the nature of narrative, the theory of language, the problems of traditional realism and the relationship between literatu...

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Text in French, with introd. and notes in English.

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The "world of letters" has always seemed a matter more of metaphor than of global reality. In this book, Pascale Casanova shows us the state of world literature behind the stylistic refinements--a world of letters relatively independent ...

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"This is a book just the way I don't like them," the father of French Symbolism, Stphane Mallarm, informs the reader in his preface to Divagations: "scattered and with no architecture." On the heels of this caveat, Mallarm...

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Nineteenth-century theories of race were meant to provide a comprehensive account of the history and evolution of civilizations. What they produced instead were the modern foundations for prejudice and its politics. In this enlightening book, with...

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Michel Winocks biography situates Gustave Flauberts life and work in Frances century of great democratic transition. Flaubert did not welcome the egalitarian society predicted by Tocqueville. Wary of the masses, he rejected the universal male suff...

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The influence of Antonin Artaud on the contemporary theatre has only become evident since the early Sixties, although writers and directors have been directly or indirectly influenced by his thinking and innovations for many years. Today his pre-e...

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Sade is best known for his sensational books Justine, Juliette and Les Cent Vert (The One Hundred Days of Sodom), yet in his lifetime these and other major works appeared in anonymous or clandestine editions or remain unpublished. It was while he ...

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This is a book about identity, about how the ancient Greeks saw themselves and others, and what this tells us in turn about Greek mentality and culture. It looks at voyagers and explorers, at travels in reality and in the mind, and shows what thes...

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