Strangers to Ourselves - (European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) by Julia Kristeva (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>Kristeva begins with the personal and moves outward by examining world literature and philosophy. She discusses the foreigner in Greek tragedy, in the Bible, and in the literature of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Enlightenment, and the twentieth century.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Kristeva begins with the personal and moves outward by examining world literature and philosophy. She discusses the foreigner in Greek tragedy, in the Bible, and in the literature of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Enlightenment, and the twentieth century.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>This book explores 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 with-in the self--a person's deep sense of being, as distinct from outside appearance and from their conscious idea of self.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Kristeva suggests that the antidote to xenophobia, racism and other weapons against outsiders is to recognize that "the foreigner is within us." [The book] demonstrates her amazing command of history, politics, literature, linguistics, and psychology...argues powerfully for a radical examination of self, beginning with the realization that what is most fearful to us in the stranger may be the very quality we do not want to recognize in ourselves. Only through this reconciliation with our estranged self, Kristeva asserts, can we begin to give fair treatment to others.--San Fransisco Examiner-Chronicle<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Julia Kristeva is a leading French intellectual, practicing psychoanalyst, and Professor of Linguistics at the Universite de Paris VII. Columbia University Press has published other books by Kristeva in English: <i>In the Beginning Was Love, Tales of Love, Revolution in Poetic Language, Powers of Horror, Desire in Language, Black Sun, Language: The Unknown, </i> and <i>The Kristeva Reader.</i>
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