Name: Strangers to Ourselves
Price: 53.22 NZD
Availability: InStock
Author: Julia Kristeva
ISBN: 9780231214612

Type

Physical Book

Author

Julia Kristeva

Publisher

Columbia Univ Pr

Language

English

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780231214612

Strangers to Ourselves

Julia Kristeva (Author) · Columbia Univ Pr · Paperback

New Book Imported to New Zealand

Delivery: 15 Jun - 19 Jun

NZ$ 53.22

Import costs and 15% GST included in the price ✅

NZ$ 53.22

Add to Wishlist

Synopsis "Strangers to Ourselves "

This book is concerned with the notion of the stranger--the foreigner, outsider, or alien in a country and society not their own--as well as the notion of strangeness within the self, a person's deep sense of being, as distinct from outside appearance and their conscious idea of self. Julia Kristeva begins with the personal and moves outward by examining world literature and philosophy. She discusses the foreigner in Greek tragedy, in the Bible, and in the literature of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Enlightenment, and the twentieth century. By considering the legal status of foreigners throughout history, Kristeva offers a different perspective on our own civilization.

Julia Kristeva

(Author)

View Author's Page

She is a writer, psychoanalyst, member of the University Institute of France, and a professor at the University Diderot-Paris VII, where she heads the Doctoral School "Language, Literature, Image" and the Roland Barthes Center. She holds doctorates from numerous universities and is a member of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society. She is part of the Economic and Social Council of France and chairs the National Council "Disability: Awareness, Information, Training". In 2004, she received the Holberg Prize (Norway); and in 2006, the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought (Bremen). She has written about thirty books, novels, and essays, including Strangers to Ourselves (1988), The Samurai (1992), The Female Genius: Hannah Arendt, Vol. I (1999), Melanie Klein, Vol. II (2003), Colette: A Female Genius (2007).

See less