"Revolution in Poetic Language" Fifty Years Later

Contents
Editor’s Acknowledgments
Introduction: Revolutionary Practice and the Subject-in-Process
	Beyond Feminism: Engaging Kristeva for Decolonial, Trans, and Disability Studies
	The Evolving Meaning of Ontological Loss: From Revolution to Revolt
	Division into Chapters
	Notes
	References
Part One: Two New Texts by Kristeva
	Chapter 1: Editor’s Introduction to Julia Kristeva’s “The Impossibility of Loss” (1988)
		References
	Chapter 2: The Impossibility of Loss
		Thing and Object
		The Act Would Be Merely Reprehensible
		A Blank Perversion
		Don Juan’s Wife: Sorrowful or Terrorist
		Roundtable
		Notes
	Chapter 3: Of What Use Are Poets in Times of Distress?
		Context of Julia Kristeva’s Public Lecture, in Minutes of the Ministry of Culture and Communications
		Notes
		References
Part Two: Beyond Feminism: Engaging Kristeva for Decolonial, Trans, and Disability Studies
	Chapter 4: Julia Kristeva’s Maternal Ethics of Tenderness
		Introduction
		Ethics of Tenderness
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 5: Kristeva in a Trans Poetic Frame
		Introduction: Julia Kristeva and the Transgender Turn
		Between Sex and Gender: The Empty Violence of Dualism
		Poetic Revolt and Trans Resistance
		Conclusion: Questioning Abstraction, Questioning Revolt
		References
	Chapter 6: Stranger than Other Strangers: On the Crossroads between Subjectivity and Language in Kristeva and Anzaldúa
		Introduction
		Revolution in Poetic Language Revisited: A Liminal Politics of Polyphony
		Stranger than Other Strangers
		Monsters of the Crossroads: Heterogeneity and Strangeness in the Borderlands
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 7: Theories of Poetic Resistance: Julia Kristeva and Sylvia Wynter
		Introduction
		Julia Kristeva and the Poetic
		Sylvia Wynter and the Poetic
		Contradictions and Interventions
		Returning to Kristeva
		Multiplicity
		Sociogeny
		Returning to Kristeva
		Return to Wynter
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 8: Proust among the Patients: Kristeva on Proust, Psychoanalysis, and Politics
		Notes
		References
Part Three: The Evolving Meaning of Ontological Loss: From Revolution to Revolt
	Chapter 9: From Praxis to Chōra: The Filter of (In)Humanization in Julia Kristeva’s Early Work
		Preliminary Remarks
		Politics of the Avant-garde: Always Dissident
		The Case of Praxis
		From One Practice to Another
		The Semiotic, the Chōra: Why Two Terms?
		The Nombre
		The Nombrant
		The F(eminine) Boson
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 10: The Mental Image and the Spectacular Imaginary: Kristeva with Lacan and Sartre
		Introduction
		The Mirror Stage, Castration, and Subject Formation
			Lacan’s Mirror Stage and Castration
			Kristeva on Lacan’s Mirror Stage and Castration
		The Mirror Stage of the Spectacle
			From Lacan to Sartre
			Kristeva on Sartre’s Mental Image and the Imaginary
		Conclusion: The Spectacular Imaginary
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 11: Rhythm and the Semiotic in Revolution in Poetic Language
		Introduction
		Rhythm between the Semiotic and the Symbolic
		Rhythm and Transposition
		Rhythm and the Effraction of the Thetic
		Rhythm and the Text as a Practice
		A Structural Sketch of Semiotic Rhythm
		Rhythm and Philosophical Practice
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 12: Excription and the Negativity of the Speaking Subject: Reading Kristeva with Heidegger
		Temporal Latency of Grief and the Nonphenomenological Moment in Kristeva
		The Chōra and the Archive—Sublimation, Where Kristeva’s Green Differs from Derrida
		Freud, the Speculative Hypothesis of the Death Drive and Hegel in 1974
		In Conclusion: Semiotic Inscription
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 13: Kristeva and Arendt on Language, Sanity, and the Sensus Communis
		Introduction
		“The only general symptom of insanity . . .”: Sensus communis and Political Communication
		The Other sensus communis and the Place of Intimacy
		Conclusion: On the Street, in the Abyss
		Notes
		References
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