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How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces by Roland Barthes
$49.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
In The Preparation of the Novel, a collection of lectures delivered at a defining moment in Roland Barthes's career (and completed just weeks before his death), the critic spoke of his struggle to discover a different way of writing and a new approach to life. The Neutral preceded this work, containin ...Show more
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection by Julia Kristeva
$57.95 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: European Perspectives: a Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism Ser.
Powers of Horror is an excellent introduction to an aspect of contemporary French literature which has been allowed to become somewhat neglected in the current emphasis on para-philosophical modes of discourse."
Strangers to Ourselves by Julia Kristeva
$50.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
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. Kristeva begins ...Show more
The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature by Pierre Bourdieu
$38.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
During the last two decades, sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has become a dominant force in cultural activity ranging from taste in music and art to choices in food and lifestyles. The Field of Cultural Production brings together Bourdieu's major essays on art and literature and provides the first introduct ...Show more
The Incredible Need To Believe by KRISTEVA JULIA
$22.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
"Unlike Freud, I do not claim that religion is just an illusion and a source of neurosis. The time has come to recognize, without being afraid of 'frightening' either the faithful or the agnostics, that the history of Christianity prepared the world for humanism." So writes Julia Kristeva in this provoc ...Show more
This Incredible Need to Believe by Julia Kristeva
$57.95 AUD
Category: Mythology, Spirituality & Religion | Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
"Unlike Freud, I do not claim that religion is just an illusion and a source of neurosis. The time has come to recognize, without being afraid of 'frightening' either the faithful or the agnostics, that the history of Christianity prepared the world for humanism."So writes Julia Kristeva in this provoca ...Show more
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