Julia Kristeva Interviews - (European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) (Paperback)

About the Book

This is a collection of 22 never-before-translated interviews and one personal essay by Julia Kristeva. Kristeva's in-depth discussions with major figures in contemporary arts and letters cover topics as diverse as the American literary academy, fiction writing, and issues in neuroscience.

Book Synopsis

A collection of twenty-two interviews and one personal essay, Julia Kristeva Interviews presents an intimate and accessible portrait of one of France's most important critical thinkers and intellectual personalities.

From the Back Cover

This rich collection presents an intimate, accessible portrait of one of Europe's most important intellectuals. Spanning twenty years of her remarkable career, Julia Kristeva Interviews includes twenty-three interviews--many appearing here for the first time in English and one conducted expressly for this volume. These provocative discussions with key figures in contemporary arts and letters touch upon topics as diverse as the American literacy academy, the novels of Celine and Proust, neuroscience, and the American Left.

Review Quotes

It is perhaps edifying to take Kristeva's work as a whole, in order that we may best consider her complex balances of interdisciplinary concerns. In his recent collection of Kristeva's interviews, Ross Mitchell Guberman gives us the opportunity to do just that, in a space that affords us, additionally, a fresh perspective on this theorist's personal and intellectual developments.-- "Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society"

About the Author

Ross Mitchell Guberman is the translator of Kristeva's New Maladies of the Soul.