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Strangers to Ourselves
This book is concerned with 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 within the self -a person's deep sense of being, as distinct from outside appearance and their conscious idea of self.
Kristeva begins with the personal and moves outward by examining world literat
...moreHardcover, 230 pages
Published
June 3rd 1991
by Columbia University Press
(first published January 1st 1991)
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One of the most popular Kristeva’s book is discovering the question of identity. Today this question might be felled of empty determinations. Who am I? How could I behave? These problems were asked by ancient philosophers, but in modern culture they are essential again (as every fundamental issue). Reading this book I couldn’t really found out the fundamental answers. It seems that Kristeva deeply understands the meaning of question and she also correctly asks us about identity. But farther and ...more
The problem that I had with this book is that it takes what appears to be a personal experience and universalizes that experience as one of all foreigners. The language that is employed here almost seems like it would work better as an autobiography or fiction.
The historical facts given work as a survey of the notion of the stranger/foreigner throughout centuries, but the first chapter, which is the account of what the foreigner experiences in the contemporary world, is very detached...more
The historical facts given work as a survey of the notion of the stranger/foreigner throughout centuries, but the first chapter, which is the account of what the foreigner experiences in the contemporary world, is very detached...more
College professor study on what it means to be a stranger... Philosophically and in mythology and literature.
Did not like the introduction at all... Have paused, not sure I will resume.
Did not like the introduction at all... Have paused, not sure I will resume.
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Julia Kristeva is a French psychoanalyst, sociologist, critic and philosopher. She researches on psychoanalysis of the Lacanian tradition, and has interest in semiotics. She also founded the Simone de Beauvoir Prize.
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