Tag: hannah arendt
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Dewey Decimal Project: 843 KRI Powers of horror : an essay on abjection
The 840s put me in French literature, I spotted Kristeva’s name on the spine and, having read Desire in Language during my MFA, I decided I’d read this. I’d forgotten that I hated Desire in Language, finding her writing incoherent and her uncritical acceptance of Freudian theory laughable. I also had read another Kristeva book along the way on…
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Dewey Decimal Project: 320.509 ARE Hannah Arendt
Looking over the shelves gave me ajada with all the conservative nonsense books. Seeing the combination of Hannah Arendt and Julia Kristeva on the spine of this book left me feeling that there might be some hope after all for the 300s. This is a biography of sorts, but one really focusing more on Arendt’s life…