Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death : : or Language Haunted by Sex /

Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death : : or Language Haunted by Sex / / Julia Kristeva.

Julia Kristeva has been both attracted and repelled by Dostoyevsky since her youth. In this extraordinary book, by turns poetic and intensely personal, she brings her unique critical sensibility to bear on the tormented and visionary Russian author.Kristeva ranges widely across Dostoyevsky's no...

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VerfasserIn:
Kristeva, Julia,
MitwirkendeR:
Mortimer, Armine Kotin,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2023]
2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Part I: The Flood of Language
  • 1. The Condemned Man, the Sacred Malady, and the Sun
  • 2. Dostoyevsky, "Author of My Life"
  • 3. In the Steps of the Liberated Convict
  • 4. Beyond Neurosis
  • 5. The God- Man, the Man- God
  • 6. The Purloined Letter
  • 7. Everything Is Permitted
  • Part II: A Carnivalesque Theologian
  • Introduction
  • 8. The Russian Virus
  • 9. Christocentrism
  • 10. The Pleasures of Evil and Misfortune
  • 11. The National Christ
  • 12. Catholicism, Atheism, Nihilism
  • 13. The Nihilist Seeking God
  • 14. Laughter, Spokesperson for the Obscene
  • 15. "The Novel Is a Poem"
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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