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  Julia Kristeva - Philosopher - Biography
Julia Kristeva was born in Bulgaria in 1942.
Kristeva's unique background, a "foreign" woman working in the predominantly male intellectual circles of France, drives the strategies of her work in semiotics and her interest in the politics of marginality.
Kristeva's elaboration on the model of Lacan involves a distinction between the "semiotic" and "semiotics" as a field of study in linguistics, and a further distinction between two heterogeneous types of signification in language, the semiotic and the symbolic.
www.egs.edu /resources/kristeva.html   (949 words)

  
 Julia Kristeva - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kristeva's use of the term 'semiotic' here should not be confused with the discipline of semiotics suggested by Ferdinand de Saussure.
Julia Kristeva is married to the French writer Philippe Sollers.
Kristeva argues that anthropology and psychology, or the connection between the social and the subject, do not represent each other, but rather follow the same logic: the survival of the group and subject.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Julia_Kristeva   (567 words)

  
 Julia Kristeva
Kristeva's view of Klein portrays her as "the most original innovator, male or female, in the psychoanalytic arena" but also as a thinker whose ideas and concepts are crucial to an understanding of modern man and the madness of twentieth century history.
Kristeva concludes by dissecting the role of the Arendtian narrative, a narrative that she considers the most intrinsically political action because it is so readily shared.
Kristeva seems to be tapping into a French fondness for the hard-boiled noir thriller, which came on the scene around the time of the nouveau roman in the 1950s and early 60s.
www.arlindo-correia.com /021003.html   (11648 words)

  
 TITLEAn Interview with Julia Kristeva - by Nina Zivancevici
Kristeva: It has always shocked commentators when I affirm my agreement with the ancient Greeks who viewed art as catharsis or purification and I would add that it is a sort of sublimation for the "borderline" states, in the broadest sense of the term, that is, it comprises those characterized by fragility.
Kristeva: I have really enjoyed myself writing about these different works of art, notably, on representations of decapitation, and I believe that the novel as genre, especially thriller which is an open genre and completely renewable allows for this type of digression in writing.
Kristeva: I believe that you were right to make such assumptions about my eventual dialogue with Hannah Arendt -- I have been reading her work for quite a while and I'd say, in all modesty, that a lot of my writing, consciously or unconsciously, is tied to her thought.
evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /kristeva.htm   (2282 words)

  
 Julia Kristeva
Kristeva is in fact a "foreigner", having arrived in France as a young doctoral student from Bulgaria in 1965.
Kristeva's constant preoccupation with "exile" and "foreign-ness", whether on the physical or psychic planes, is the subject of an extended discussion in Lechte’s book.
That Kristeva would encourage a nonjudgmental approach is not surprising, since her choice to work in the realm of the personal over the political bears resemblance to Colette's.
www.arlindo-correia.com /kristeva.html   (3887 words)

  
 Julia Kristeva
Throughout her writing over the last three decades, Kristeva theorized the connection between mind and body, culture and nature, psyche and soma, matter and representation, by insisting both that bodily drives are discharged in representation, and that the logic of signification is already operating in the material body.
Kristeva suggests that the operations of identification and differentiation necessary for signification are prefigured in the body's incorporations and expulsions of food in particular (see Revolution in Poetic Language and Powers of Horror).
Kristeva's analysis in Black Sun suggests that we need not only a new discourse of maternity but also a discourse of the relation between mothers and daughters, a discourse that does not prohibit the lesbian love between women through which female subjectivity is born.
www.cddc.vt.edu /feminism/Kristeva.html   (2743 words)

  
 Julia Kristeva: A Bibliography--Selected Articles
NYE, Andrea, "Kristeva and a maternal semiotics," pp.
ZIAREK, Ewa, "Kristeva and Levinas: Mourning, Ethics, and the Feminine," pp.
DAVIS, Clifford, "The Abject: Kristeva and the Antigone," Paroles Gelées, 13, 1995, pp.
ms.cc.sunysb.edu /~hvolat/kristeva/krist10.htm   (9929 words)

  
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In this text, Kristeva focuses on the status of the foreigner/stranger in the context of the historical and political conceptions of social identities, in particular, in the context of the Enlightenment's dissolution of religious ties and the subsequent emergence of the modern nation-state: "With the establishment of nation-states we come to the only modern.
As Kristeva is well aware, the experience of the uncanny does not consist in the encounter with the irreducible alterity of the other person--it is certainly not the face to face encounter in the Levinasian sense--but, on the contrary, it brings an unsettling recognition of the subject's own strangeness.
Needless to say, Kristeva's interpretation of the uncanny repeats its paradoxical logic: the instability of the opposition between the inside and the outside, between interiority and exteriority, is %unheimlich par excellence%.
www.iath.virginia.edu /pmc/text-only/issue.195/ziarek.195   (5166 words)

  
 cresmokris
Julia Kristeva was born in Bulgaria in 1941.
Kristeva has stated that her interest in psychoanalyis arose partly from being exiled from Bulgaria.[3] Being an exile helped Kristeva see both her own country and her adopted country more clearly.[4] Her experience of displacement was an ingredient in her idea of the 'cosmopolitan' individual, the 'intellectual dissident'.
Kristeva was critical of the politicization of sexual 'difference', which she saw in Cixous, Irigaray, and the Psych et Po group; 'it is all too easy to pass from the search for difference to the denigration of the symbolic' Kristeva wrote in a 1979 article, "Il n'y a pas de maître à langage" (134-5).
www.crescentmoon.org.uk /cresmokris   (2627 words)

  
 Julia Kristeva resources at Erratic Impact's Feminism Web
Kristeva speaks lucidly about her well-known notion of intertextuality, expressing her intellectual debt to Bakhtin's notion of dialogism while emphasizing that the intersection of voices surrounding an utterance concerns not only the semantic field but the syntactic and phonic fields.
Julia Kristeva: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources in French and English 1966-1996 Kathleen O'Grady, Editor - alas, this is only the description of the book that was awarded the American Theological Library Association Bibliographer's Award, 1997.
The Abject: Kristeva and the Antigone Extract from: "The Abject: Kristeva and the Antigone" by Clifford Davis, a UCLA French Studies journal.
www.erraticimpact.com /~feminism/html/women_kristeva_julia.htm   (590 words)

  
 The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum - Literature
ULIA Kristeva entered the French scene in 1966 at the age of 25 when she left the land of her birth, Bulgaria, holding nothing more than an invitation for doctoral research and a suitcase.
Julia Kristeva is among the four pioneer French women who cleared the space for feminist thinking (the others being Luce Irigaray, Hélène Cixous and Monique Wittig).
Kristeva’s Revolution in Poetic Language is about both facets of knowledge which are deeply enmeshed in signification, the semiotic referring to a hidden meaning which is not signified, and the symbolic to an overt meaning which is almost always signified.
www.tribuneindia.com /2002/20020414/spectrum/book2.htm   (843 words)

  
 Julia Kristeva: werken over Kristeva
The author provides clear explanations of the most difficult aspects of Kristeva's theories, helpfully placing her ideas in the relevant theoretical context, be it literary theory, psychoanalysis, semiotics, gender studies of philosophy, and demnonstrates the impact of her critical internvetions in these areas.
Julia Kristeva's most remarkable contribution to modern thought has been her revelation of how pre-verbal experience - poetic, infantile, maternal and spiritual, or simply the experience of suffering - enters language through the processes of literature, art and psychoanalysis.
This up-to-date survey of Julia Kristen's work outlines her intellectual development, from her work on Bakhtin and the logic of poetic language in the 1960s, through her influential theories of the 'symbolic' and the 'semiotic' in the 1970s, to her analyses of horror, love, and melancholy in the 1980s.
www.taalfilosofie.nl /krist_biblio_boekover.html   (1582 words)

  
 Julia Kristeva - Search Results - MSN Encarta
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encarta.msn.com /Julia_Kristeva.html   (124 words)

  
 Julia Kristeva
Kristeva criticizes "classical" semiotics on the claim that it cannot deal with desire, play or transgression from social code: "The sceince of linguistics has no way of apprehending anything in language which belongs not with the social contract but with play, pleasure or desire" (Kristeva 26).
According to Kristeva, the speaking subject is a divided subject.
Julia Kristeva: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources in French and English: 1966-1996.
www.lacan.com /kristeva.htm   (375 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Julia Kristeva (French Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Julia Kristeva 1941–;, French critic, psychoanalyst, semiotician, and writer, b.
She studied at the Univ. of Sofia and settled (1966) in Paris, where she received (1973) a doctorate in linguistics from the School of Higher Education in Social Sciences.
Kristeva, who became a psychoanalyst at 40, is also a professor of linguistics at the Univ. of Paris.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/K/Kristeva.html   (335 words)

  
 Mystery! - The Boston Globe
That's certainly the case with Kristeva's new novel, which is replete with classic mystery-novel elements: clues that turn out to be red herrings, insidery talk about fingerprint analysis, even the archetypal figure of a cultured detective reminiscent of Dorothy L. Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey or P.D. James's poet policeman Adam Dalgleish.
Kristeva's flatfoot is Northrop Rilsky, a police commissioner in the fictional European country of Santa Varvara (think of a sprawling film noir Monte Carlo).
Kristeva's fiction is an extension of her theory, says Lawrence D. Kritzman, a Dartmouth professor who recently edited ''The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought." ''She brings her theoretical interests into the writing of novels," he says, ''and in a certain sense, the novels almost become laboratories for exploration.
www.boston.com /news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/02/19/mystery   (997 words)

  
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Julia Kristeva's main interest is in discourse which confronts language and thinks it against itself.
Her insistence upon the importance of the speaking subject as the primary object for linguistic analysis is itself rooted in "dialogism" and her own active dialogue with Bakhtin's texts.
According to Kristeva, Bakhtin saw the literary word as an intersection of textual surfaces rather than as a fixed point or meaning---as a dialogue among various texts: the writer's, the character's, and the historical cultural context.
www.msu.edu /user/chrenkal/980/THEORY.HTM   (638 words)

  
 Julia Kristeva
While the notion of Kristeva as the author of an international murder mystery might strike some as strange, her newest novel, Murder in Byzantium is just that and much more.
Kristeva began with Hannah Arendt, a work which focuses on Arendt's life and her intellectual pursuits.
The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt, Kristeva draws on psychoanalytic theory and literature to explore the nature and possibility of revolt in the modern world.
www.columbia.edu /cu/cup/publicity/kristevaspotlight.html   (471 words)

  
 Kristeva, Julia - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
KRISTEVA, JULIA [Kristeva, Julia] 1941-, French critic, psychoanalyst, semiotician, and writer, b.
Bibliography: See T. Moi, ed., The Kristeva Reader (1986) and K. Oliver, The Portable Kristeva (1997); R. Guberman, ed., Julia Kristeva Interviews (1996); studies by J. Lechte (1990), J. Fletcher and A. Benjamin, ed.
Kristeva and an archaeology of sources and translation.(Julia Kristeva's essay 'Stabat Mater')
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-kristeva.html   (427 words)

  
 ArtandCulture Artist: Julia Kristeva   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kristeva is most renowned for contributing to the shift from Structuralist to Poststructuralist thought in the ‘60s and ‘70s.
Kristeva's contributions, which traverse fields from linguistics and semiotics to psychoanalysis and philosophy, Marxism and feminism to literature and poetics, are often difficult to compartmentalize.
Her name is not generally on the tip of everyone’s tongue, possibly because her writing is incredibly dense and difficult for many to grasp on their first attempts.
www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=780   (429 words)

  
 Labyrinth Books
Kristeva's recurring characters, detective Northrop Rilsky and the French journalist Stephanie Delacour, step in and desperately try to piece together the two-part mystery in the midst of their unexpected love affair.
In the midst of this rich, multilayered historical novel, Kristeva also presents three stunning, closely observed, and interlocking portraits of characters struggling with loss and emptiness in their personal histories and day-to-day lives.
Julia Kristeva is a renowned psychoanalyst, critic, and professor of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII.
www.labyrinthbooks.com /events_detail.aspx?evtid=119   (391 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: New Maladies of the Soul: Books: Julia Kristeva,Ross Guberman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Based on the book's title, one guesses that Kristeva (The Old Man and the Wolves, LJ 12/94; Strangers to Ourselves, LJ 4/1/91) would answer in the affirmative.
Kristeva offers a challenge for psychoanalaysis to open itself up again: to break down from its position of the one who is presumed to know.
One of the most renowned researchers in the field of Social Studies, Kristeva has gone deeply in the facts of the soul in our modern world, exercising her acute views on the disturbs that affect the human soul.
www.amazon.ca /New-Maladies-Soul-Julia-Kristeva/dp/0231099835   (436 words)

  
 Julia Kristeva, "Approaching Abjection"
As you'll see, Kristeva's criticism is heavily inflected by Lacan and by French Deconstruction.
Kristeva, by the way, was born in Bulgaria and is considered one of the most influential contemporary French theorists.]
Freud, early in his career, used the same word to refer to a therapeutics, the rigor of which was to come out later.
social.chass.ncsu.edu /wyrick/debclass/krist.htm   (6006 words)

  
 Kristeva
The name Julia Kristeva usually evokes the image of the quintessential "French intellectual" and all that conjures up in the Anglo-Saxon mind of the labyrinthine excesses of "French theory".
Outside France, as Lechte notes, Kristeva’s name is most commonly associated with that phenomenon known as "French feminism".
Taking what is now perhaps a fairly standard approach, Lechte divides Kristeva’s work into three distinct if interrelated phases.
www.foucault.qut.edu.au /kristeva.html   (2607 words)

  
 Julia Kristeva   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Julia Kristeva, Michigan State University: A collection of short, but not necessarily brief, annotated statements about a number of Kristeva themes and interests, such as the issue of intertextuality, her linguistic theory, and her take on "Feminism and the Politics of Marginality."-MJM
Julia Kristeva: A Bibliography, compiled by Hélène Volat (Reference Librarian State University of New York at Stony Brook): A collection of materials by and about Kristeva, including audiovisuals, theses and dissertations, interviews, and so on.-MJM
Julia Kristeva: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources in French and English, 1966-1996, Philosophy Documentation Center: "The bibliography.
library.marist.edu /diglib/english/theorists/kristeva.htm   (241 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Kristeva Reader: Books: Julia Kristeva,Toril Moi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kristeva's work focuses heavily on semiotics and women's role in politics and religion.
The Kristeva Reader is a good, even great, introduction to the work of Julia Kristeva.
Some of Kristeva's most important works are brilliantly exerpted in readable prose by Toril Moi.
www.amazon.com /Kristeva-Reader-Julia/dp/0231063253   (1039 words)

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