Kristeva Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death

or Language Haunted by Sex
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-231-55845-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism

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 author.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kristeva, Julia

Weitere Mitwirkende

Mortimer, Armine Kotin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Slawische Literaturen Ostslawische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Part I: The Flood of Language
1. The Condemned Man, the Sacred Malady, and the Sun
2. Dostoyevsky, “Author of My Life”
3. In the Steps of the Liberated Convict
4. Beyond Neurosis
5. The God-Man, the Man-God
6. The Purloined Letter
7. Everything Is Permitted
Part II: A Carnivalesque Theologian
8. The Russian Virus
9. Christocentrism
10. The Pleasures of Evil and Misfortune
11. The National Christ
12. Catholicism, Atheism, Nihilism
13. The Nihilist Seeking God
14. Laughter, Spokesperson for the Obscene
15. “The Novel Is a Poem”
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.”

Armine Kotin Mortimer is professor emerita of French literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the translator of Julia Kristeva’s novel The Enchanted Clock (Columbia, 2018) and the recipient of an NEA Translation Fellowship.