Maria Margaroni - Understanding Kristeva, Understanding Modernism

Understanding Kristeva, Understanding Modernism

The aim of each volume in Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism is to understand a philosophical thinker more fully through literary and cultural modernism and consequently to understand literary modernism better through a key philosophical figure. In this way, the series also rethinks the limits of modernism, calling attention to lacunae in modernist studies and sometimes in the philosophical work under examination.

Series Editors:

Paul Ardoin, S. E. Gontarski, and Laci Mattison

Volumes in the Series:

Understanding Bergson, Understanding Modernism

Edited by Paul Ardoin, S. E. Gontarski, and Laci Mattison

Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism

Edited by S. E. Gontarski, Paul Ardoin and Laci Mattison

Understanding Wittgenstein, Understanding Modernism

Edited by Anat Matar

Understanding Foucault, Understanding Modernism

Edited by David Scott

Understanding James, Understanding Modernism

Edited by David H. Evans

Understanding Rancire, Understanding Modernism

Edited by Patrick M. Bray

Understanding Blanchot, Understanding Modernism

Edited by Christopher Langlois

Understanding Merleau-Ponty, Understanding Modernism

Edited by Ariane Mildenberg

Understanding Nietzsche, Understanding Modernism

Edited by Douglas Burnham and Brian Pines

Understanding Derrida, Understanding Modernism

Edited by Jean-Michel Rabat

Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism

Edited by Robin Truth Goodman

Understanding Flusser, Understanding Modernism

Edited by Aaron Jaffe, Rodrigo Martini, and Michael F. Miller

Understanding Marx, Understanding Modernism

Edited by Mark Steven

Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism

Edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Zahi Zalloua

Understanding Kristeva, Understanding Modernism

Edited by Maria Margaroni

Understanding Bakhtin, Understanding Modernism (forthcoming)

Edited by Philippe Birgy

Understanding Badiou, Understanding Modernism (forthcoming)

Edited by Arka Chattopadhyay and Arthur Rose

Understanding iek, Understanding Modernism (forthcoming)

Edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Zahi Zalloua

Understanding Nancy, Understanding Modernism (forthcoming)

Edited by Cosmin Toma

Understanding Cavell, Understanding Modernism (forthcoming)

Edited by Paola Marrati

Understanding Kristeva, Understanding Modernism

Edited by
Maria Margaroni

CONTENTS

Rina Arya is a Professor at the University of Huddersfield. She is interested in the visual and material culture of religion. Author of Francis Bacon: Painting in a Godless World (2012) and Abjection and Representation (2014), she is currently working on a study of cultural appropriation in a Hindu context.

Carol Mastrangelo Bov is Teaching Professor in English/Gender, Sexuality, and Womens Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and Professor Emerita in French at Westminster College, Pennsylvania. She is the author of two books on Kristeva, Language and Politics in Julia Kristeva: Literature, Art, Therapy (SUNY Press, 2006) and Kristeva in America: Re-imagining the Exceptional (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Her other publications include many articles on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, film and literary translation. She has translated Hlne Cixous, Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva. A book on Colette as well as a new translation of her La Maison de Claudine is in the works.

Tina Chanter has published on contemporary French philosophy, drawing inspiration from a range of sources, including feminist theory, race theory, psychoanalysis, art, politics, film and tragedy. Her most recent books are Whose Antigone? The Tragic Marginalisation of Slavery and Art; Politics and Rancire: Broken Perceptions. She taught in the United States, most recently in Chicago, before returning to the UK, where she worked and taught in Bristol and London before joining Newcastle University.

Nicholas Chare is Professor of Art History in the Department of History of Art and Film Studies at the Universit de Montral. He is the author of After FrancisBacon (2012) and the co-editor (with Valrie Bienvenue) of Animals, Plants and Afterimages (2022) and (with Ersy Contogouris) On the Nude (2022). His work has appeared in journals including Angelaki, Art History, Cultural Critique, Paragraph, parallax and symplok.

Marios Constantinou received his PhD from the New School for Social Research. He is the editor of Badiou and the Political Condition (EUP), as well as of special issues on Space and Event (Environment and Planning D: Society and Space) and Imperial Affect (Parallax). His writings and essays appeared in Third Text, Parrhesia, The Years Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, Angelaki, Parallax, Thesis Eleven, Postcolonial Studies and elsewhere. They all attempt from different angles to retrieve the counter-imperial truth of the political from the grip of contemporary norms of biopower.

Elisabetta Convento (MA University of Padova, MA Purdue University, PhD University of Trento and Paris 8) is Director of Boston University Padova programme and Professor of Italian Studies. For Boston University she recently taught Contemporary Italian Literature and The Intersection of Gender, Race, Media and Covid 19. She has published in the fields of linguistics, women studies and Italian studies. Among other works, she is the translator and editor of Julia Kristevas Il rischio del pensare (Il Melangolo, 2006) and editor of a Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism volume devoted to Dino Buzzati (Gale, 2021).

Robin Truth Goodman is Professor of English at Florida State University. Her published works include: Gender Commodity: Marketing Feminist Identities and the Promise of Security; Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism; The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st Century Feminist Theory; Promissory Notes: On the Literary Conditions of Debt; Gender for the Warfare State: Literature of Women in Combat; Literature and the Development of Feminist Theory; Gender Work: Feminism After Neoliberalism; Feminist Theory in Pursuit of the Public: Women and the Re-Privatization of Labor; Policing Narratives and the State of Terror; World, Class, Women: Global Literature, Education, and Feminism; Strange Love, or How We Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Market; and Infertilities: Exploring Fictions of Barren Bodies. She has recently edited Feminism as World Literature (forthcoming from Bloomsbury, 2023).

Christos Hadjiyiannis is a research fellow at the Centre for Medieval Arts and Rituals at the University of Cyprus. He has published widely on twentieth-century literature and art, and is the author of Conservative Modernists: Literature and Tory Politics in Britain, 19001920 (Cambridge University Press, 2018). He is also the editor, with Rachel Potter, of The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature and Politics (2020).

Esther Hutfless is a philosopher and psychoanalyst in Vienna, Austria. Her main teaching and research areas include: deconstruction, psychoanalysis, feminist philosophy, criture fminine and queer theory. Her recent publications include essays on the case of Dora, a Freuderridian approach to a non-normative psychoanalysis and on Jean Laplanche and Queer Theory. She has co-edited a book on queer theory and psychoanalysis with Barbara Zach, and the German translations of Hlne Cixous