This Incredible Need to Believe

This Incredible Need to Believe

This Incredible Need to Believe

This Incredible Need to Believe

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Overview

In this provocative work, Julia Kristeva analyzes the inexorable push toward faith that lies at the heart of the psyche and the history of society.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780231219044
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 11/19/2024
Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Pages: 136
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Julia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII. A renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist, she has written dozens of books spanning semiotics, political theory, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique, as well as several novels and autobiographical works, published in English translation by Columbia University Press. Kristeva was the inaugural recipient of the Holberg International Memorial Prize in 2004 “for innovative explorations of questions on the intersection of language, culture, and literature.”

Beverley Bie Brahic is a translator and poet living in Paris and Stanford, California. In addition to the writing of Kristeva, she has translated the works of Hélène Cixous, Jacques Derrida, and Francis Ponge.

Table of Contents

The Big Question Mark (in Guise of a Preface)
This Incredible Need to Believe: Interview with Carmine Donzelli
From Jesus to Mozart: Christianity's Difference?
"Suffering": Lenten Lectures, March 19, 2006
The Genius of Catholicism
Don't Be Afraid of European Culture
Index
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