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Book 2018.0

Passions of Our Time

Julia Kristeva

Culture Columbia University Press 9780231171441 Available

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Notes: edited with foreword by Lawrence D. Kritzman. Printed version in two notebooks

Annotation: Julia 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. Passions of Our Time 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. The 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.”

Identifier: 9780231171441

Status: Available

Book 2011.0

At a Fair Distance

edited by Dario Martinelli and Lina Navickaitė-Martinelli

Culture Umweb 9789525576108 Available

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Other title information: International Perspectives on the Risorgimento

Annotation: A collection of studies on Italian Risorgimento performed by international scholars. It offers a view "form another angle," within a context - the 150th anniversary of Italian unification - that has generally been arranged "by Italians for Italians," lacking that particular resourcefulness and often impartiality that international scholarship was able to contribute to the Risorgimento's historiography.

Identifier: 9789525576108

Status: Available

Book 1997.0

Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace

Literature Abacus 9780349121086 Available

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Annotation: A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. Set in an addicts’ halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human – and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do.

Identifier: 9780349121086

Status: Available

Book 1994.0

Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes

Philosophy University of California Press 0520087836 Available

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Annotation: Roland Barthes was one of France's leading literary critics and cultural commentators who died in 1980. This work is a kind of autobiography, both personal and theoretical, giving an account of his tastes, his childhood, his education, his passions and regrets which have gone into his work.

Identifier: 0520087836

Status: Available

Journal Article 1988

Compte rendu

In: Semiotica 1988, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.68.1-2.121

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.68.1-2.121

Passions of Our Time

At a Fair Distance

Infinite Jest

Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes

Compte rendu

Deconstructing Austin’s pragmatics: ‘An idle tea-table amusement’ (Russell) or an epistemological solution to the crisis of representation?

On the possibility of defining truth in natural language: A polemic with Alfred Tarski

Peirce and Turing: Comparisons and conjectures

Porphyre: Le regard sémiotique

Ritual or ritual? Dinnertime and Christmas among some ordinary American families

The organization of repair in the songs of gibbons

Ideological Aesthetics and Meta-Modalization: Semiotics of Descartes’ Passions of the Soul

’Si vous allez derrière un théâtre ...’: La Bruyère’s moral gestures (BF 25: 203)

Andromaque under interrogation

Descartes: langue, signe et relecture chomskyenne

Le langage des passions

Les mets et les mots: gastronomie et sémiotique dans L’Ecole des femmes

Painting, poetry, and signs: Molière’s La Gloire du Val-de-Grâce and Perrault’s Poème de la Peinture

Pascal’s fragmentary thoughts: Dis-order and its overdetermination

Prefiguring history: La Ceppède and the representation of the sacred

Reading La Fontaine: Le Chêne et le roseau (I, 22)

Sonstiges

The function of performative narrative in Corneille’s La Mort de Pompée

The law(s) of the pedagogical jungle: La Fontaine read by Rousseau

The semiotic criticism of Charles Perrault’s Contes

The state of literary semiotics: 1983

Trajectoire d’une pointe assassine

Une sorte d’agitation sans desordre: Untying the setting of La Princesse de Clèves