Strangers to Ourselves
Book Details
- Publisher : Columbia U.P.
- Published : 2024
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 232
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 717
- ISBN 13 : 9780231214612
- ISBN 10 : 0231214618
Reviews and Endorsements
Kristeva suggests that the antidote to xenophobia, racism and other weapons against outsiders is to recognize that "the foreigner is within us." [Strangers to Ourselves] demonstrates [Kristeva’s] amazing command of history, politics, literature, linguistics, and psychology... [and] 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.
San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle
Kristeva’s most accessible book to date, of broad historical scope and deep personal passion. It is also a very wise book
Comparative Literature
[An] elegant account of the links between subjectivity and heteronomy.
Radical Philosophy