European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism – serie
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Powers of Horror
An Essay on Abjection
Häftad, 2024
244 kr
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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 the writings of Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Marcel …
Prison Notebooks
Volume 1
Av Antonio Gramsci, Joseph A. Buttigieg
Häftad, 2011
323 kr
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Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) is widely celebrated as the most original political thinker in Western Marxism and an all-around outstanding intellectual figure. Arrested and imprisoned by the Italian Fascist regime in 1926, Gramsci died before fully regaining his freedom. Nevertheless, in his prison …
Neutral
Lecture Course at the College de France (1977-1978)
Häftad, 2007
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
372 kr
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"I define the Neutral as that which outplays the paradigm, or rather I call Neutral everything that baffles paradigm." With these words, Roland Barthes describes a concept that profoundly shaped his work and was the subject of a landmark series of lectures delivered in 1978 at the College de …
Black Sun
Depression and Melancholia
Häftad, 2024
219 kr
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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 goal and explains how the love of a lost identity of …
Regimes of Historicity
Presentism and Experiences of Time
Häftad, 2016
281 kr
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Francois Hartog explores crucial moments of change in society's "regimes of historicity," or its ways of relating to the past, present, and future. Inspired by Hannah Arendt, Reinhart Koselleck, and Paul Ricoeur, Hartog analyzes a broad range of texts, positioning The Odyssey as a work on the …
Writings on Psychoanalysis
Freud and Lacan
Av Louis Althusser, Olivier Corpet m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
692 kr
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With several never-before published writings, this volume gathers Althusser's major essays on psychoanalytic thought--documenting his intense and ambivalent relationship with Lacan, and dramatizing his intellectual journey and troubled personal life.
Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences
Häftad, 2016
229 kr
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What can psychoanalysis, a psychological approach developed more than a century ago, offer us in an age of rapidly evolving, hard-to-categorize ideas of sexuality and the self? Should we abandon Freud's theories completely or adapt them to new findings and the new relationships taking shape in …
How to Live Together
Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces
Häftad, 2012
289 kr
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In The Preparation of the Novel, a collection of lectures delivered at a defining moment in Roland Barthes's career (and completed just weeks before his death), the critic spoke of his struggle to discover a different way of writing and a new approach to life. The Neutral preceded this work, …
Strangers to Ourselves
Häftad, 2024
244 kr
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This book is concerned with the notion of the stranger—the foreigner, outsider, or alien in a country and society not their own—as well as the notion of strangeness within the self, a person’s deep sense of being, as distinct from outside appearance and their conscious idea of self.Julia Kristeva …
New Maladies of the Soul
Häftad, 2025
173 kr
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"These days, who still has a soul?" asks Julia Kristeva in this psychoanalytic exploration. Drawing on her many years of experience as a practicing psychoanalyst, Kristeva reveals to readers a new kind of patient, symptomatic of an age of political upheaval, mass mediated culture, and the dramatic …
Hatred and Forgiveness
Häftad, 2025
178 kr
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Julia Kristeva refracts the impulse to hate (and our attempts to subvert, sublimate, and otherwise process it) through psychoanalysis and text, exploring worlds, women, religion, portraits, and the act of writing. Her inquiry spans themes, topics, and figures central to her writing, and her paths …
Subaltern Social Groups
A Critical Edition of Prison Notebook 25
Av Antonio Gramsci, Joseph A. Buttigieg m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
306 kr
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Antonio Gramsci is widely celebrated as the most original political thinker in Western Marxism. Among the most central aspects of his enduring intellectual legacy is the concept of subalternity. Developed in the work of scholars such as Gayatri Spivak and Ranajit Guha, subalternity has been …
Hatred and Forgiveness
Inbunden, 2010
862 kr
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Julia Kristeva refracts the impulse to hate (and our attempts to subvert, sublimate, and otherwise process it) through psychoanalysis and text, exploring worlds, women, religion, portraits, and the act of writing. Her inquiry spans themes, topics, and figures central to her writing, and her paths …
Strangers to Ourselves
Häftad, 1991
692 kr
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This book is concerned with the notion of the "stranger" -the foreigner, outsider, or alien in a country and society not their own- as well as the notion of strangeness within the self -a person's deep sense of being, as distinct from outside appearance and their conscious idea of self. Kristeva …
Chronos
The West Confronts Time
Häftad, 2024
306 kr
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As omnipresent as it is ungraspable, time has always inspired and eluded attempts to comprehend it. For the early Christians, for the twenty-first-century world, how have past and future been woven into the present? In Chronos, a leading French historian ranges from Western antiquity to the …
Desire in Language
A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art
Häftad, 2024
244 kr
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Desire in Language presents a selection of Julia Kristeva’s 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 Lacan, and others, Kristeva proposes and tests …
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
Intersecting Lives
Häftad, 2011
392 kr
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In May 1968, Gilles Deleuze was an established philosopher teaching at the innovative Vincennes University, just outside of Paris. Felix Guattari was a political militant and the director of an unusual psychiatric clinic at La Borde. Their meeting was quite unlikely, yet the two were introduced in …
Proust, a Jewish Way
Häftad, 2024
274 kr
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Marcel Proust once wrote, “There is no longer anybody, not even myself, since I cannot leave my bed, who will go along the Rue du Repos to visit the little Jewish cemetery where my grandfather, following a custom that he never understood, went for so many years to lay a stone on his parents’ …
History of Virility
Av Alain Corbin, Jean-Jacques Courtine m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
359 kr
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How has the meaning of manhood changed over time? A History of Virility proposes a series of answers to this question by describing a trajectory that begins with ancient conceptions of male domination and privilege and examining how it persisted, with significant alterations, for centuries. While …
This Incredible Need to Believe
Häftad, 2011
174 kr
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"Unlike Freud, I do not claim that religion is just an illusion and a source of neurosis. The time has come to recognize, without being afraid of 'frightening' either the faithful or the agnostics, that the history of Christianity prepared the world for humanism." So writes Julia Kristeva in this …
Dostoyevsky, or The Flood of Language
Häftad, 2026
410 kr
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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 of the most important figures in European …
Jean Baudrillard Reader
Av Jean Baudrillard, Steve Redhead
Inbunden, 2008
862 kr
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Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) was a controversial social and cultural theorist known for his trenchant analyses of media and technological communication. Belonging to the generation of French thinkers that included Gilles Deleuze, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Lacan, …
Dialogue with Nietzsche
Häftad, 2008
494 kr
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For more than forty years, Gianni Vattimo, one of Europe's most important and influential philosophers, has been a leading participant in the postwar turn that has brought Nietzsche back to the center of philosophical enquiry. In this collection of his essays on the subject, which is a dialogue …
Food
A Culinary History
Av Jean-Louis Flandrin, Massimo Montanari
Häftad, 2013
403 kr
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When did we first serve meals at regular hours? Why did we begin using individual plates and utensils to eat? When did "cuisine" become a concept and how did we come to judge food by its method of preparation, manner of consumption, and gastronomic merit? Food: A Culinary History explores culinary …
Belle Époque
A Cultural History, Paris and Beyond
Inbunden, 2021
1064 kr
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The years before the First World War have long been romanticized as a zenith of French culture—the “Belle Époque.” The era is seen as the height of a lost way of life that remains emblematic of what it means to be French. In a vast range of texts and images, it appears as a carefree time full of …
Belle Époque
A Cultural History, Paris and Beyond
Häftad, 2021
271 kr
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The years before the First World War have long been romanticized as a zenith of French culture—the “Belle Époque.” The era is seen as the height of a lost way of life that remains emblematic of what it means to be French. In a vast range of texts and images, it appears as a carefree time full of …
Melanie Klein
Häftad, 2026
234 kr
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Melanie Klein (1882–1960) pioneered psychoanalytic practice with children and made major contributions to our understanding of both psychosis and autism. Along the way, she introduced a new approach to the theory of the unconscious without abandoning the principles set forth by Freud. In her first …
German Officer in Occupied Paris
The War Journals, 1941-1945
Av Ernst Jünger
Inbunden, 2019
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
1187 kr
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Ernst Jünger was one of twentieth-century Germany’s most important—and most controversial—writers. Decorated for bravery in World War I and the author of the acclaimed western front memoir Storm of Steel, he frankly depicted war’s horrors even as he extolled its glories. As a Wehrmacht captain …
Prison Notebooks
Volume 3
Av Antonio Gramsci, Joseph a. Buttigieg
Häftad, 2007
323 kr
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Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) is widely celebrated as the most original political thinker in Western Marxism and an all-around outstanding intellectual figure. Arrested and imprisoned by the Italian Fascist regime in 1926, Gramsci died before fully regaining his freedom. Nevertheless, in his prison …
Devil's Cloth
A History of Stripes and Striped Fabric
Inbunden, 2001
714 kr
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Michel Pastoureau's lively study of stripes offers a unique and engaging perspective on the evolution of fashion, taste, and visual codes in Western culture. The Devil's Cloth begins with a medieval scandal. When the first Carmelites arrived in France from the Holy Land, the religious order …
