Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
Current price:
$39.84
Publication Date: February 13th, 2024
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
ISBN:
9780231214575
Pages:
248
Description
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 C line, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and other authors. Kristeva identifies the abject with the eruption of the real and the presence of death. She explores how art and religion each offer ways of purifying the abject, arguing that amid abjection, boundaries between subject and object break down.
Other Books in Series
Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death: Or Language Haunted by Sex (European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
Paperback
Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia (European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
Paperback
What Is Philosophy? (European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
Paperback
Strangers to Ourselves (European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
Paperback
Tears of History: The Rise of Political Antisemitism in the United States (European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
Paperback
Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art (European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
Paperback
Difference and Repetition (European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
Paperback
Chronos: The West Confronts Time (European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
Paperback
Album: Unpublished Correspondence and Texts (European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
Paperback
Preorder
New Maladies of the Soul (European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
Paperback
Preorder
Intimate Revolt: The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis (European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
Paperback
Preorder
Language: The Unknown: An Initiation Into Linguistics (European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
Paperback
Preorder
The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt: The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis (European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
Paperback
Preorder
Time and Sense: Proust and the Experience of Literature (European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
Paperback
Revolution in Poetic Language (European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
Paperback
The Belle Époque: A Cultural History, Paris and Beyond (European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
Paperback
Entre Nous: Essays on Thinking-Of-The-Other (European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
Paperback
Chronos: The West Confronts Time (European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
Hardcover
How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces (European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
Paperback