Prof. Julia Kristeva
Honorary member of the ZfL, Professor emerita at the Université Paris 7 – Denis Diderot (France)
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Julia Kristeva is a literary theorist, psychoanalyst, and writer. Born in Bulgaria, Kristeva has lived and worked in France since 1966. She is the director of the doctoral school for Languages, Literature, Image, Civilisation and Social Sciences at the Université Paris 7 – Denis Diderot. Kristeva is Commandeur of the French National Order of Merit and commandeur of the Legion of Honor. She has received numerous honorary doctorates from numerous universities: Buenos Aires, Haifa, Harvard, London, Sofia, Thessaloniki, and Toronto, among others. She is a member of the Institut Universitaire de France (2000) and the British Academy (2004). In 2004, she received the Holberg International Memorial Prize. In 2006, she was awarded the Hannah Arendt Prize. Julia Kristeva has been an Honorary Member of the ZfL since 2009.
Kristeva’s writings on semiotics and poetics along with her contributions to the journal for literary theory Tel Quel have had a significant impact on poststructuralist theory. Her work draws from Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, Russian formalism, and Hegel’s philosophy. During her research stay in 2011, Julia Kristeva held her inaugural lecture as honorary member of the ZfL on March 8th, entitled “The Need to Believe and the Force of Monotheism.”
Events with Julia Kristeva at the ZfL
- Lecture at the ICI, 6 Nov 2018
Refounding Europe Through Culture - Inaugural lecture as Honorary Member, HKW, 8 Mar 2011
The need to believe and the force of monotheism - Wednesday lecture at the BBAW, 9 Jun 2008
Feminine Genius: Women’s intellectual culture in the 20th century
Publications
Monographs (Selection)
- Dostoïevski. Paris: Buchet/Castel 2020
[Translation: Dostoyevsky, or The Flood of Language. New York: Columbia University Press 2022] - Je me voyage. Mémoires. Paris: Fayard 2016
- Beauvoir présente. Paris: Fayard 2016
- Du mariage considéré comme un des beaux-arts. Paris: Fayard 2015 (with Philippe Sollers)
[Translation: Marriage as a Fine Art. New York: Columbia University Press 2016] - Thérèse mon amour. Sainte Thérèse d'Avila. Paris: Fayard 2008
[Translation: Teresa, my love. An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila. New York: Columbia University Press 2014] - Cet incroyable besoin de croire. Paris: Bayard 2007
[Translation: This incredible need to believe. New York: Columbia University Press 2009] - La haine et le pardon. Paris: Fayard 2005
[Translation: Hatred and Forgiveness. New York: Columbia University Press 2010] - Le génie féminin. La vie, la folie, les mots. Tome 3 Colette. Paris: Fayard 2002
[Translation: Colette. New York: Columbia University Press 2004] - Au risque de la pensée. La Tour-d'Aigues: Éditions de l'Aube 2001
- Le génie féminin. La vie, la folie, les mots. Tome 2 Melanie Klein. Paris: Fayard 2000
[Translation: Melanie Klein. New York: Columbia University Press 2001] - Le génie féminin. La vie, la folie, les mots. Tome 1 Hannah Arendt. Paris: Fayard 1999
[Translation: Hannah Arendt. New York: Columbia University Press 2001] - Le Temps sensible. Proust et l’expérience littéraire. Paris: Gallimard 1994
[Translation: Time and Sense. Proust and the Experience of Literature. New York: Columbia University Press 1996] - Les Nouvelles Maladies de l’âme. Paris: Fayard 1993
[Translation: New Maladies of the Soul. New York: Columbia University Press 1995] - Etrangers à nous-mêmes. Paris: Gallimard 1991
[Tranlation: Strangers to Ourselves. New York: Columbia University Press 1991] - Soleil Noir. Dépression et Mélancolie. Paris: Gallimard 1987
[Translation: Black Sun. Depression and Melancholia. New York: Columbia University Press 1989] - Histoires d’amour. Paris: Denoel 1983
[Translation: Tales of love. New York: Columbia University Press 1987] - La révolution du langage poétique. Paris: Seuil 1974
[Translation: Revolution in Poetic Language. New York: Columbia University Press 1984] - Des Chinoises. Paris: Edition Des Femmes 1974
[Translation: About Chinese Women. London: Boyars 1977]
Articles (ZfL)
- De la “modernité critique” à la “modernité analytique.” Hommage à Stéphane Mosès, in: Daniel Weidner, Sigrid Weigel (eds.): Benjamin-Studien 1. München: Wilhelm Fink 2008, 251–264