Description
| Product ID: | 9781501341335 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | Psychoanalytic Horizons |
| Title: | At the Risk of Thinking |
| Subtitle: | An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva |
| Authors: | Author: Prof Alice Jardine, Professor Mari Ruti |
| Page Count: | 400 |
| Subjects: | Biography: general, Biography: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Gender studies: women and girls, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Gender studies: women, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearFinalist for the 2021 Prose Awards (Biography & Autobiography category)At the Risk of Thinking is the first biography of Julia Kristeva--one of the most celebrated intellectuals in the world. Alice Jardine brings Kristeva's work to a broader readership by connecting Kristeva’s personal journey, from her childhood in Communist Bulgaria to her adult life as an international public intellectual based in Paris, with the history of her ideas. Informed by extensive interviews with Kristeva herself, this telling of a remarkable woman’s life story also draws out the complexities of Kristeva’s writing, emphasizing her call for an urgent revival of bold interdisciplinary thinking in order to understand--and to act in--today’s world. A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearFinalist for the 2021 Prose Awards (Biography & Autobiography category)At the Risk of Thinking is the first biography of Julia Kristeva--one of the most celebrated intellectuals in the world. Alice Jardine brings Kristeva''s work to a broader readership by connecting Kristeva’s personal journey, from her childhood in Communist Bulgaria to her adult life as an international public intellectual based in Paris, with the history of her ideas. Informed by extensive interviews with Kristeva herself, this telling of a remarkable woman’s life story also draws out the complexities of Kristeva’s writing, emphasizing her call for an urgent revival of bold interdisciplinary thinking in order to understand--and to act in--today’s world. |
| Imprint Name: | Bloomsbury Academic USA |
| Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-01-23 |