Kristeva The Severed Head

Capital Visions
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-231-56270-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism

Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from the Paleolithic period to the present.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kristeva, Julia

Weitere Mitwirkende

Gladding, Jody

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Dekonstruktivismus, Strukturalismus, Poststrukturalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword, by Françoise Viatte
Alibi?, by Régis Michel
1. On Drawing; or, The Speed of Thought
2. The Skull: Cult and Art
3. Who Is Medusa?
4. The True Image: A Holy Face
5. A Digression: Economy, Figure, Face
6. The Ideal Figure; or, A Prophesy in Actuality: Saint John the Baptist
7. Beheadings
8. From the Guillotine to the Abolition of Capital Punishment
9. Powers of Horror
10. The Face and the Experience of Limits
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kristeva Julia:
Julia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII. A renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist, she has written dozens of books spanning semiotics, political theory, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique, as well as several novels and autobiographical works, published in English translation by Columbia University Press. Kristeva was the inaugural recipient of the Holberg International Memorial Prize in 2004 “for innovative explorations of questions on the intersection of language, culture, and literature.”Julia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII. A renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist, she has written dozens of books spanning semiotics, political theory, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique, as well as several novels and autobiographical works, published in English translation by Columbia University Press. Kristeva was the inaugural recipient of the Holberg International Memorial Prize in 2004 “for innovative explorations of questions on the intersection of language, culture, and literature.”

Jody Gladding is a poet who has translated more than twenty works from French.