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Author:   Julia Kristeva ,  Margaret Waller (Pomona College) ,  Leon Roudiez ,  Leon Roudiez
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
Imprint:   Columbia University Press
ISBN:  

9780231214599

ISBN 10:   0231214596
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   20 February 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Translator's Preface Introduction, by Leon S. Roudiez Prolegomenon Part 1. The Semiotic and the symbolic 1. The Phenomenological Subject of Enunciation 2. The Semiotic Chora Ordering the Drives 3. Husserl's Hyletic Meaning: A Natural Thesis 4. Hjelmslev's Presupposed Meaning 5. The Thetic: Rupture and/or Boundary 6. The Mirror and Castration Positing the Subject as Absent from the Signifier 7. Frege's Notion of Signification: Enunciation and Denotation 8. Breaching the Thetic: Mimesis 9. The Unstable Symbolic. Substitutions in the Symbolic: Fetishism 10. The Signifying Process 11. Poetry That is Not a Form of Murder 12. Genotext and Phenotext 13. Four Signifying Practices Part 2. Negativity: Rejection 1. The Fourth ""Term"" of the Dialectic 2. Independent and Subjugated ""Force"" in Hegel 3. Negativity as Transversal to Thetic Judgment 4. ""Kinesis,"" ""Cura,"" ""Desire"" 5. Humanitarian Desire 6. Non-Contradiction Neutral Peace 7. Freud's Notion of Expulsion Rejection Part 3. Heterogeneity 1. The Dichotomy and Heteronomy of Drives 2. Facilitation, Stasis, and the Thetic Moment 3. The Homological Economy of the Representamen 4. Through the Principle of Language 5. Skepticism and Nihilism in Hegel and in the Text Part 4. Practice 1. Experience Is Not Practice 2. The Atomistic Subject of Practice in Marxism 3. Calling Back Rupture within Practice - Experience-in-Practice 4. The Text as Practice, Distinct from Transference Discourse 5. The Second Overturning of the Dialectic after Political Economy, Aesthetics 6. Madoror and Poems, Laughter as Practice 7. The Expenditure of a Logical Conclusion: Igitur Notes Index"

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A crucially important book. -- Toril Moi * French Studies * A lucid and creative consideration of the status and stakes of contemporary cultural criticism, it is essential reading for students of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—and a monumental challenge to all of us. -- Alice Jardine, Harvard University

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Julia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII. A renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist, she has written dozens of books spanning semiotics, political theory, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique, as well as several novels and autobiographical works, published in English translation by Columbia University Press. Kristeva was the inaugural recipient of the Holberg International Memorial Prize in 2004 “for innovative explorations of questions on the intersection of language, culture, and literature.”

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