The Severed Head: Capital Visions

Julia Kristeva; Translated by Jody Gladding

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December, 2011
Cloth, 176 pages, 18 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-15720-9
$34.50 / £24.00

Web Features:

• Julia Kristeva on the severed head
• Nicholas Rombes on The Severed Head and its relationship to David Lynch's Blue Velvet.
• VIDEO: Julia Kristeva meets the Pope.

Related Subjects

• Aesthetics
• Art, Music, Architecture, & Photography
• Continental/Feminist Philosophy
• Philosophy of Religion

Series

• European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism

About the Author

Julia Kristeva is professor of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII and author of many acclaimed works and novels, including This Incredible Need to Believe, Melanie Klein, Hannah Arendt, Possessions, Time and Sense, New Maladies of the Soul, Strangers to Ourselves, and Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. She is the recipient of the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought and the Holberg International Memorial Prize.

Jody Gladding is a poet who has translated more than twenty works from French.

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