This Incredible Need to Believe
Julia Kristeva uses both dialogue and essay to analyze our incredible need to believe--the inexorable push toward faith that, for Kristeva, lies at the heart of the psyche and the history of society. Examining the lives, theories, and convictions of Saint Teresa of Avila, Sigmund Freud, Donald Winnicott, Hannah Arendt, and others, this provocative intellectual maps the intersection between the desire for God and the shadowy zone in which belief resides. Kristeva suggests that human beings are formed by their need to believe, beginning with our first attempts at speech and following through to our adolescent search for identity and meaning. Sh…
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Weitere Autoren: Brahic, Beverley Bie (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-231-14785-9
- EAN: 9780231147859
- Produktnummer: 11439569
- Verlag: Columbia Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 115 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.4 cm x D2.2 cm 193 g
- Gewicht: 193
- Sonstiges: Ab 22 J.
Über den Autor
Julia Kristeva is professor of linguistics at the Universite de Paris VII and the author of many acclaimed works and novels, including Murder in Byzantium, Strangers to Ourselves, New Maladies of the Soul, Time and Sense, Hannah Arendt, and Melanie Klein. She is the recipient of the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought and the Holberg International Memorial Prize. 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 Helene Cixous, Jacques Derrida, and Francis Ponge.
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