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About Julia Kristeva

Julia Kristeva is a literary theorist, psychoanalyst, author and philosopher. Since 1965, she has lived and worked in Paris, where she has held a professorship at Paris Diderot University since 1973. Kristeva is an enthusiastic European. Her early work was influential to the development of gender studies theory, though she rejects the primacy of collective identity, and with it the “feminist” label.
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Bulgaria, Post-Totalitarian Europe and Me

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It’s been three months since the publication, via Sofia, of the Bulgarian communist secret police dossier classifying Julia Kristeva as a spy working under the name “Sabina.”  The semiologist, psychoanalyst …
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Homo Europaeus: Does European Culture Exist?
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Homo Europaeus: Does European Culture Exist?

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European citizen, of French nationality, Bulgarian by birth and American by adoption, I am not insensitive to harsh critiques of Europe, but I also hear the desire for it and …
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