{"product_id":"passions-of-our-time-9780231171441","title":"Passions of Our Time","description":"\u003cp\u003eJulia Kristeva is a true polymath, an intellectual of astonishingly wide range whose erudition and insight have been brought to bear on psychoanalysis, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique. \u003ci\u003ePassions of Our Time\u003c\/i\u003e showcases recent essays of Kristeva's that demonstrate the scope of her capacious intellect, her gifts as a stylist, and the profound contribution of her thought to the challenges of the present. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe collection begins with а vivid recollection of celebrating, as a child in Bulgaria, Alphabet Day, the holiday honoring the Cyrillic letters, which proceeds outward into a contemplation of the writer as translator. Kristeva considers literature with Barthes, freedom through Rousseau, Teresa of Avila and mystical experience, Simone de Beauvoir's dream life, and Antigone and the psychic life of women. A group of essays drawing on her psychoanalytic work delve into Freud, Lacan, maternal eroticism, and the continued importance of psychoanalysis today. In a series of striking investigations, she thinks through disability and normativity, monotheism and secularization, the need to believe and the desire to know. Calling for the courage to renew and reinvent humanism, she outlines the principles of a stance founded on the importance of respecting human life. Finally, Kristeva discusses French culture and diversity, rethinking universalism and interrogating the potential for Islam and psychoanalysis to meet, and pays homage to Beauvoir by rephrasing her dictum into the provocative \"One is born woman, but I become one.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Universit? de Paris VII and author of many acclaimed works. Her Columbia University Press books include \u003ci\u003eHatred and Forgiveness \u003c\/i\u003e(2012); \u003ci\u003eThe Severed Head: Capital Visions \u003c\/i\u003e(2014); and, with Philippe Sollers, \u003ci\u003eMarriage as a Fine Art\u003c\/i\u003e (2016). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLawrence D. Kritzman is Pat and John Rosenwald Research Professor in the Arts and Sciences and professor of French and comparative literature at Dartmouth College. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Fabulous Imagination: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Montaigne's Essays\u003c\/i\u003e (2012) and editor of the \u003ci\u003eColumbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought \u003c\/i\u003e(2006) and the Columbia University Press series European Perspectives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eConstance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier live and work in Paris, France. They are the translators of \u003ci\u003eThe Second Sex\u003c\/i\u003e, by Simone de Beauvoir.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50318579597586,"sku":"9780231171441","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c689a03b-0a31-4af3-8343-007a861e2009.jpg?v=1737061626","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/passions-of-our-time-9780231171441","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}