At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva

Title Page\nCopyright Page\nContents\nAcknowledgments\nAuthor’s Note\nIntroduction: At the Risk of Thinking\n	The Question of the Intellectual—Again\n	In the Face of Resistance\n	My Coup de Foudre\n	Why Now? The Contestatory Intellectual\n	Notes on the Biography\nPart I: Bulgaria, My Suffering (1941–1965)\n	A Production of History\n	Stoyan Kristev\n	All My Childhood Was Bathed in This\n	Kristina Kristeva\n	One Spoonful at a Time\n	I Didn’t Want to Take Care of All That\n	The Journalist\n	Pure Oxygen\n	The Writer\n	Sputnik or the New Novel\n	Endings, Beginnings\nPart II: The Crazy Truth of It (1965–1979)\n	Early Exile\n	The Lost Territory\n	Tzvetan Stoyanov\n	Mentors and a Doctorate\n	Philippe Sollers\n	Tel Quel\n	Resurrections\n	Sit Down! Sit Down!\n	Dominique Rolin\n	Multiverses\n	Beneath the Paving Stones\n	Semiotike (1969)\n	Language, the Unknown (1969)\n	Émile Benveniste\n	The Text of the Novel (1970)\n	Ilse Barande\n	Revolution in Poetic Language (1974)138\n	The Pedagogical Imperative\n	The Desire for China\n	About Chinese Women (1974)\n	The Intimate Acts of the Modern Personality\n	David\n	Compartmentalizing\n	Reliance: An Ethic of Care\n	The Crossing of Signs (1975)\n	New York City\n	The Dissident\n	Polylogue (1977)\n	Crazy Truth (1979)\nPart III: Becoming Julia Kristeva (1980–Today)\n	A Vertical Present\n	Yes, Yes, of Course, but What Shall We Do Now?\n	Death, That Strange Voice . . .\n	1. The 1980s: Strangers to Ourselves and Others\n		Ça continue: Work, Family, the Île de Ré\n		Whatever Happens to Me, That’s What I Write About\n		Questions of Civilization Cannot Be Managed by Politics\n		Powers of Horror (1980)\n		Tales of Love (1983)\n		In the Beginning Was Love (1985)\n		Black Sun (1987)\n		Strangers to Ourselves (1988)\n		And Yet, It’s up to Women . . .\n		If You Could Just Die . . .\n	2. The 1990s: Revolt, She Said\n		Accolades and Accusations\n		New Directions: Fiction and Revolt\n		Thinking Through the Novel\n		The Samurai (1990)\n		The Old Man and the Wolves (1991)\n		Possessions (1996)\n		Time and Sense (1994)\n		Revolt After the Revolution\n		New Maladies of the Soul (1993)\n		The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt (1996)\n		Intimate Revolt (1997)\n		The Future of Revolt (1998)\n		Nations Without Nationalism (1990)\n		Revolt, She Said (1998)\n		The Severed Head (1998)\n		Transcend Yourself!\n		The Feminine and the Sacred (1998)\n		Hannah Arendt (1999)\n		I Cannot See Any Light . . .\n	3. The 2000s: An Intellectual Who Workson the Invisible\n		Against Cynicism\n		I Can Only Rely on My Own Strengths\n		Psychoanalysis Is a Humanism\n		Singular Universalism and Human Rights\n		Crisis of the European Subject (2000)\n		At the Risk of Thought (2001)\n		Micropolitics (2001)\n		Chronicles of a Sensitive Time (2003)\n		Open Letter to the President (2003)\n		Their Look Pierces Our Shadows (2011)\n		Murder in Byzantium (2004)\n		Hatred and Forgiveness (2005)\n		Alone, a Woman (2007)\n		Melanie Klein (2000)\n		Colette (2002)\n		Teresa, My Love (2008)\n		This Incredible Need to Believe (2007)\n		Reinventing Secular Humanism\n		The “French Death of God Theologian”\n		The Crisis of Ideality\n		Teresa, Our Contemporary\n		Representing the Atheists of the World\n	4. The 2010s: Traveling Through Myself\n		No One Owns the Truth\n		The Why Rather than the How\n		No One Pays Attention to the Political Until It Feels Spiritual\n		Perpetual Motion\n		Beauvoir Presents/In the Present (2016)\n		Passions of Our Time (2013)\n		The Enchanted Clock (2015)\n		It’s a True Nightmare or a Pitiful Farce, I’m Not Sure Which . . .\n		Who’s Afraid of Julia Kristeva?\n		A Violence that Reaches the Heart\n		It’s Just Not My Life . . .\nAppendix 1: Document #10 of the “Sabina” File\nAppendix 2: A Chronological List of Kristeva’s Books in French\nNotes\n	Introduction\n	Part I: Bulgaria, My Suffering (1941–1965)\n	Part II: The Crazy Truth of It (1965–1979)\n	Part III: Becoming Julia Kristeva (1980–Today)\nIndex