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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

Symbol i Muzyka

Leszek Polony

Music Akademia Muzyczna w Krakowie 9788362743018 Available

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Annotation: This book is an entry into the symbolicism of music. The book consists of three chapters. In the first, I deal with the concept of the symbol itself. I discuss its genesis, history changing understanding, and above all - it's functioning in contemporary thought in such fields as sociology, cultural anthropology, semiotics or semiology, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and musicology. In the second chapter I present the problem of symbol and meaning in European music in a historical outline. The third chapter is my analysis of musical interpretations.

Identifier: 9788362743018

Status: Available

Book 2009.0

The Parallax View

Slavoj Žižek

Philosophy MIT press 9780262240512 Available

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Annotation: The Parallax View is Slavoj Žižek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Žižek himself describes it as his magnum opus. Parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object, caused by a change in observational position. Žižek is interested in the "parallax gap" separating two points between which no synthesis or mediation is possible, linked by an "impossible short circuit" of levels that can never meet. From this consideration of parallax, Žižek begins a rehabilitation of dialectical materialism. Modes of parallax can be seen in different domains of today's theory, from the wave-particle duality in quantum physics to the parallax of the unconscious in Freudian psychoanalysis between interpretations of the formation of the unconscious and theories of drives. In The Parallax View, Žižek, with his usual astonishing erudition, focuses on three main modes of parallax: the ontological difference, the ultimate parallax that conditions our very access to reality; the scientific parallax, the irreducible gap between the phenomenal experience of reality and its scientific explanation, which reaches its apogee in today's brain sciences (according to which "nobody is home" in the skull, just stacks of brain meat—a condition Žižek calls "the unbearable lightness of being no one"); and the political parallax, the social antagonism that allows for no common ground. Between his discussions of these three modes, Žižek offers interludes that deal with more specific topics—including an ethical act in a novel by Henry James and anti-anti-Semitism. The Parallax View not only expands Žižek's Lacanian-Hegelian approach to new domains (notably cognitive brain sciences) but also provides the systematic exposition of the conceptual framework that underlies his entire work. Philosophical and theological analysis, detailed readings of literature, cinema, and music coexist with lively anecdotes and obscene jokes.

Identifier: 9780262240512

Status: Available

Book 1999.0

Snow, Forest, Silence

Edited by Eero Tarasti | assistant editors Paul Forsell | Richard Littlefield

Dependent title: The Finnish Tradition of Semiotics

Culture Indiana University Press 0253213207 Available

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Notes: One of the books in this library is inherited from Tyler James Bennet's library

Annotation: Consists of 30 essays, most of them written by Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian scholars. The essays herein reflect a multiplicity of projects, ranging from explicitly national issues to quite "universal" themes such as signs of media, cinema, music, writing, actoriality, gastronomy, mental illness, language, habitus, distinction, and more.

Identifier: 0253213207

Status: Available

Proceedings Paper 1997

Body as nexus—natural, factual, artifactual, evocative

Myrdene Anderson

In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2

Pages: 905-908

Semiotics Around the World

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Passions of Our Time

Symbol i Muzyka

The Parallax View

Snow, Forest, Silence

Body as nexus—natural, factual, artifactual, evocative

Cyber-semiotics: On autopoiesis, code-duality and signgames as vital aspects of bio-semiotics

Dancers’ bodies as the repository of conceptualisations of the body, with special reference to the Tiwi of Northern Australia

Meaning and value of information in biological systems

Narrative analysis of the romantic ballet Giselle

Performing gender: The semiotics of the body in three recent films

Physics and biosemiotics

Semiosis and evolution

Semiotics as the psychosomatic hope

Semiotics of psychoanalytic discourse: Some developmental aspects of narrativity

Signs of life

Subject(s) and everyday life discourse: Women speaking

The global semiosphere

The natural bases of semiotic behavior

The relation between interaction, semiosis, and language

The semiotics of biological functions

The swarming body

Unruly genitals: Psychoanalysis: The disappearance of sin?

Wish I was here: The body as performance

Wittgensteinian biology

Analysing performance

Ecstatic Naturalism

Compte rendu

Distant genetic relationship and Edward Sapir

Guest editorial. Present image, past text, post word: Educating the late modern citizen

Ideal speech situation vs. particular pragmatics of situation: The microcosm of psychoanalytic discourse

La sémiotique des gestes centrés sur le corps et leurs implications langagières dans le site medical

Professor Tarski, ‘The Liar’, and the true

Reconsidering psycholinguistics' project

Sonstiges

The Other Heading

Codified continuity on the Shigisan Engi picture scrolls: Implications for a perceptual link between methods of structuring visual and auditory representation

Nomination originelle et la notion de l’interprétant: Objeux et enjeux de l’écriture pongienne

Review article

Rossi-Landi’s Wittgenstein: ‘A philosopher’s meaning is his use in the culture’

Sonstiges

The sun and the moon in Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita: Life, death, and resurrection

Time-binding and Native people: A semiotic interpretation

Symbolic Economies

Developing a text-sociological analysis

Pour une sémiologie de l’oeuvre artistique

Psychoanalysis and Semiotics: A Retrospect

Review article

Sonstiges

Structuralist approaches to character in narrative: The state of the art

Sur un chemin à l’écart de la métaphore