Description: Revisits Julia Kristeva's magnum opus on the fiftieth anniversary of its original publication to open up new paths of interdisciplinary inquiry.
Brief description: Emilia Angelova is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Concordia University. She is the editor of The Necessity of Freedom in Hegel: Logic, Phenomenology and Aesthetics.
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"...a valuable contribution to Kristevan studies. Not only does it show the variety of opinions on the evolution of Kristeva's thought over the years, especially its politics, it also voices a defense of literature as a force for social change in a world in need of transformation where such defenses are rare." -- symplokē
"With its intellectual breadth, originality, and erudition, this anthology offers readers far more than a rigorous reevaluation of Revolution in Poetic Language within the corpus of Kristeva's intellectual history. It also critically and imaginatively reconceptualizes Kristeva's text to address the most pressing political, philosophical, and psychoanalytic debates of our own historical moment. A wide range of scholarly communities--including both new and longstanding readers of Kristeva--will find fresh ideas, provocative insights, and critical interventions." -- Ewa Plonowska Ziarek, coauthor of Arendt, Natality and Biopolitics: Toward Democratic Plurality and Reproductive Justice