Kristeva

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Julia Kristeva is one of the most creative and prolific writers toaddress the personal, social, and political trials of our times.Linguist, psychoanalyst, social and cultural theorist, andnovelist, Kristeva's broad interdisciplinary appeal has impactedareas across the humanities and social sciences. S. K. Keltner's book provides the first comprehensiveintroduction to the breadth of Kristeva's work. In an original andinsightful analysis, Keltner presents Kristeva's thought as thecoherent development and elaboration of a complex, multidimensionalthreshold constitutive of meaning and subjectivity. The'threshold' indicates Kristeva's primary sphere of concern,the relationship between the speaking being and its particularsocial and historical conditions; and Kristeva's interdisciplinaryapproach. Kristeva's vision, Keltner argues, opens a uniqueperspective within contemporary discourses attentive to issues ofmeaning, subjectivity, and social and political life. Byemphasizing Kristeva's attention to the permeable borders ofpsychic and social life, Keltner offers innovative readings of theconcepts most widely discussed in Kristeva scholarship: thesemiotic and symbolic, abjection, love, and loss. She also providesnew interpretations of some of the most controversial issuessurrounding Kristeva's work, including Kristeva's conceptions ofintimacy, social and cultural difference, and Oedipal subjectivity,by contextualizing them within her methodological approach andoeuvre as a whole. Julia Kristeva: Thresholds is an engaging and accessibleintroduction to Kristeva's theoretical and fictional works thatwill be of interest to both students and scholars across thehumanities and social sciences.

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"Keltner's book is highly original, insightful, and promises to change the way scholars have traditionally read Kristeva's work." Kelly Oliver, Vanderbilt University "The book represents an engaging and original interpretation of the entire spectrum of Kristeva's work, including her often overlooked fiction. There are real gems in this manuscript, in particular a terrific and highly original interpretation of Kristeva's theory of intimacy, Oedipus, temporality, as well as of the phenomenological and ontological dimensions of her work, often disregarded by her interpreters. In short, Kristeva is a remarkable intellectual achievement." Ewa Ziarek, University at Buffalo "Keltner deftly demonstrates how Kristeva extends phenomenological insights in radically new directions. Her fresh, probing analysis decisively tackles the social and historical significance of Kristeva's Freudian and aesthetic standpoint. A tour de force of Kristeva's highly faceted portrait of Oedipus supports Keltner's excellent and timely elucidation of 'intimate revolt.'" Sara Beardsworth, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, author of Julia Kristeva: Psychoanalysis and Modernity
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