Julia Kristeva and feminist thought
This book appraises the relationship between contemporary feminism and Julia Kristeva, a major figure in Continental thought. It addresses the conflicting range of feminist responses to Kristeva's key ideas and Kristeva's equally conflicting as well as ambiguous position vis-À-vis feminism. Schippers argues that this complex relationship can only be understood by positioning Kristeva along the fissures and fault lines which run through feminism. By attending to feminism's internal debates and …
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- Full title :Julia Kristeva and feminist thought / Birgit Schippers.
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This book appraises the relationship between contemporary feminism and Julia Kristeva, a major figure in Continental thought. It addresses the conflicting range of feminist responses to Kristeva's key ideas and Kristeva's equally conflicting as well as ambiguous position vis-À-vis feminism. Schippers argues that this complex relationship can only be understood by positioning Kristeva along the fissures and fault lines which run through feminism. By attending to feminism's internal debates and disputes, and addressing the philosophical commitments and attachments held by Kristeva's critics, the book clarifies the diverse Kristeva reception within feminism and illuminates how her ideas trouble contemporary feminist thought. And despite Kristeva's fundamental ambiguity towards all matters feminist, Schippers makes a case for Kristeva's important contribution to a feminist project which is sympathetic towards her account of fluid subjectivity and her critique of identity politics. In doing so, the author advances the scholarly understanding of Kristeva and of contemporary feminist thought.
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- Publication Date:©2011
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Edinburgh University Press
- Place of Publication:Edinburgh
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2011
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (ix, 198 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780748646067, 074864606X, 9780748671830, 0748671838
- oclc:ocn815645185
- LC Classification:PQ2671.R547
- Dewey Decimal:305.42
Table of Contents
Introduction -- 1. Kristeva and feminism : a critical encounter -- 2. Crisis, revolt, intimacy -- 3. Corporeal ethics : between violence and forgiveness -- 4. The singularity of genius -- 5. Towards a philosophy of freedom?
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