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Author: Miglena Nikolchina
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9780823243006
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Concerned with the institution of "the seminar," a meeting for philosophical face-to-face oral discussion outside of the confines of Communist academia, which evolved into social movements on the street in the Eastern Europe of the 1980s and 1990s.
Author: Miglena Nikolchina
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 0823242994
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Concerned with the institution of "the seminar," a meeting for philosophical face-to-face oral discussion outside of the confines of Communist academia, which evolved into social movements on the street in the Eastern Europe of the 1980s and 1990s.
Author: Merab Slaughter, Alisa Sushytska, Julia Mamardashvili
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2020-11-17
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 3838214595
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Soviet-era philosopher Merab Mamardashvili developed an original and subtle philosophical system distinct from both his orthodox and dissident colleagues. This volume provides English-speaking audiences with a range of his lectures and writings on ancient philosophy, civil society, the European project, and literature. After many decades hiding in plain sight, he emerges as a Soviet thinker who writes in the double-voiced manner of an ideologically surveilled academic and a potent literary and theoretical innovator independent of his context.
Author: Emilia Angelova
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2024-07-01
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1438498055
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In her 1974 Revolution in Poetic Language, Julia Kristeva resisted the abstract use of language, with its aim of totalization and finality, in all its colonizing and alienating forms. A major thinker and critic, Kristeva reappropriated Hegel's concepts of desire and negativity, in conjunction with the thought of Heidegger, Arendt, Freud, and Lacan, to revolt against modernity's culture of nihilism and the West's inability to deal with loss. This collection celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of Revolution in Poetic Language by revisiting Kristeva's oeuvre and establishing exciting new directions in Kristeva studies. Engaging with queer and transgender studies, disability studies, decolonial studies, and more, renowned and rising scholars plot continuities in—and push the boundaries of—Kristeva's thinking about loss, revolution, and revolt. The volume also includes two essays by Kristeva, translated into English for the first time here—"The Impossibility of Loss" (1988) and "Of What Use Are Poets in Times of Distress?" (2016).
Author: Alice Jardine
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2020-01-23
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1501341367
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Finalist for the 2021 Prose Awards (Biography & Autobiography category) At the Risk of Thinking is the first biography of Julia Kristeva--one of the most celebrated intellectuals in the world. Alice Jardine brings Kristeva's work to a broader readership by connecting Kristeva's personal journey, from her childhood in Communist Bulgaria to her adult life as an international public intellectual based in Paris, with the history of her ideas. Informed by extensive interviews with Kristeva herself, this telling of a remarkable woman's life story also draws out the complexities of Kristeva's writing, emphasizing her call for an urgent revival of bold interdisciplinary thinking in order to understand--and to act in--today's world.
Author: Robin Truth Goodman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-12
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1107126088
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book offers an insightful look at the development of feminist theory through a literary lens. Stressing the significance of feminism's origins in the European Enlightenment, it traces the literary careers of feminism's major thinkers in order to elucidate the connection of feminist theoretical production to literary work.
Author: Anita Starosta
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2015-12-31
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 0810132036
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How are we to read the world after the fall of the Berlin Wall? Form and Instability brings notions of figuration and translation to bear on the post-1989 condition. "Eastern Europe" in this book is more than a territory. Marked by belatedness and untimely remainders, it is an unstable object that is continually misapprehended. From the intersection of comparative literature, area studies, and literary theory, Anita Starosta considers the epistemological and aesthetic consequences of the disappearance of the Second World. Literature here becomes a critical lens in its own right—both object and method, it confronts us with the rhetorical dimension of language and undermines the ideological and hermeneutic coherence of established categories. In original readings of Joseph Conrad and Witold Gombrowicz, among other twentieth-century writers, Form and Instability unsettles cultural boundaries as we know them.
Author: Maria Margaroni
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2022-11-03
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1501362372
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Julia Kristeva has revolutionized the study of modernism by developing a theoretical approach that is uniquely attuned to the dynamic interplay between, on the one hand, linguistic and formal experimentation, and, on the other hand, subjective crisis and socio-political upheaval. Inspired by the contestatory spirit of the late 1960s in which she emerged as a theorist, Kristeva has defended the project of the European avant-gardes and has systematically attempted to reclaim their legacy in the new societal structures produced by a global, spectacle-dominated capitalism. Understanding Kristeva, Understanding Modernism brings together essays that take up the threads in Kristeva's analyses of the avant-garde, offering an appreciation of her overall contribution, the intellectual and political horizon within which she has produced her seminal works as well as of the blind spots that need to be acknowledged in any contemporary examination of her insights. As with other volumes in this series, this volume is structured in three parts. The first part provides new readings of key texts or central aspects in Kristeva's oeuvre. The second part takes up the task of showing the impact of Kristeva's thought on the appreciation of modernist concerns and strategies in a variety of fields: literature, philosophy, the visual arts, and dance. The third part is a glossary of some of Kristeva's key terms, with each entry written by an expert contributor.
Author: Mihaela P. Harper
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2020-11-12
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1501348124
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Bulgarian Literature as World Literature examines key aspects and manifestations of 20th- and 21st-century Bulgarian literature by way of the global literary landscape. The first volume to bring together in English the perspectives of prominent writers, translators, and scholars of Bulgarian literature and culture, this long-overdue collection identifies correlations between national and world aesthetic ideologies and literary traditions. It situates Bulgarian literature within an array of contexts and foregrounds a complex interplay of changing internal and external forces. These forces shaped not only the first collaborative efforts at the turn of the 20th century to insert Bulgarian literature into the world's literary repository but also the work of contemporary Bulgarian diaspora authors. Mapping histories, geographies, economies, and genetics, the contributors assess the magnitudes and directions of such forces in order to articulate how a distinctly national, "minor" literature--produced for internal use and nearly invisible globally until the last decade--transforms into world literature today.
Author: Sneja Gunew
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2017-02
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 1783086653
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →‘Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-Cosmopolitan Mediators’ is the first book to bring together global debates in neo-cosmopolitanism over the last decade and Australian minority writers, linking them to globalisation and transnationalism in cultural studies.
