Kelly Oliver is W. Alton Jones Chair of Philosophy and Professor of Women's Studies at Vanderbilt University. Her previous books include Language and Liberation: Feminism, Philosophy, and Language and Living Attention: On Teresa Brennan, both also published by SUNY Press, along with Reading Kristeva: Unraveling the Double-bind and The Portable Kristeva. S. K. Keltner is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Kennesaw State University.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction:Politics from ‘a bit of a distance’S. K. KeltnerPart I. Two Statements by Kristeva 1. A Meditation, a Political Act, an Art of LivingJulia Kristeva, translated by S. K. Keltner2. DecollationsJulia Kristeva, translated by Caroline ArrudaPart II. The Violence of the Spectacle 3. Meaning against DeathKelly Oliver4. Kristeva’s Intimate Revolt and the Thought Specular: Encountering the (Mulholland) DriveFrances L. Restuccia5. Julia Kristeva and the Trajectory of the ImageJohn Lechte6. The Darkroom of the SoulRobyn Ferrell7. Julia Kristeva’s Chiasmatic Journeys:From Byzantium to the Phantom of Europe and the End of the WorldMaria MargaroniPart III. Intimacy and the Loss of Politics 8. Love’s Lost Labors:Subjectivity, Art, and PoliticsSara Beardsworth9. Symptomatic Reading:Kristeva on DurasLisa Walsh10. What Is Intimacy?S. K. Keltner11. Fear of Intimacy? Psychoanalysis and the Resistance to CommodificationCecilia Sjöholm12. Humanism, the Rights of Man, and the Nation-StateEmily Zakin13. Kristeva’s Uncanny Revolution:Imagining the Meaning of PoliticsJeff Edmonds14. Religion and the "Rights of Man" in Julia Kristeva’s WorkIdit AlphandarContributorsIndex

Kelly Oliver is W. Alton Jones Chair of Philosophy and Professor of Women's Studies at Vanderbilt University. Her previous books include Language and Liberation: Feminism, Philosophy, and Language and Living Attention: On Teresa Brennan, both also published by SUNY Press, along with Reading Kristeva: Unraveling the Double-bind and The Portable Kristeva. S. K. Keltner is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Kennesaw State University.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction:Politics from ‘a bit of a distance’S. K. KeltnerPart I. Two Statements by Kristeva 1. A Meditation, a Political Act, an Art of LivingJulia Kristeva, translated by S. K. Keltner2. DecollationsJulia Kristeva, translated by Caroline ArrudaPart II. The Violence of the Spectacle 3. Meaning against DeathKelly Oliver4. Kristeva’s Intimate Revolt and the Thought Specular: Encountering the (Mulholland) DriveFrances L. Restuccia5. Julia Kristeva and the Trajectory of the ImageJohn Lechte6. The Darkroom of the SoulRobyn Ferrell7. Julia Kristeva’s Chiasmatic Journeys:From Byzantium to the Phantom of Europe and the End of the WorldMaria MargaroniPart III. Intimacy and the Loss of Politics 8. Love’s Lost Labors:Subjectivity, Art, and PoliticsSara Beardsworth9. Symptomatic Reading:Kristeva on DurasLisa Walsh10. What Is Intimacy?S. K. Keltner11. Fear of Intimacy? Psychoanalysis and the Resistance to CommodificationCecilia Sjöholm12. Humanism, the Rights of Man, and the Nation-StateEmily Zakin13. Kristeva’s Uncanny Revolution:Imagining the Meaning of PoliticsJeff Edmonds14. Religion and the "Rights of Man" in Julia Kristeva’s WorkIdit AlphandarContributorsIndex

Kelly Oliver is W. Alton Jones Chair of Philosophy and Professor of Women's Studies at Vanderbilt University. Her previous books include Language and Liberation: Feminism, Philosophy, and Language and Living Attention: On Teresa Brennan, both also published by SUNY Press, along with Reading Kristeva: Unraveling the Double-bind and The Portable Kristeva. S. K. Keltner is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Kennesaw State University.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction:Politics from ‘a bit of a distance’S. K. KeltnerPart I. Two Statements by Kristeva 1. A Meditation, a Political Act, an Art of LivingJulia Kristeva, translated by S. K. Keltner2. DecollationsJulia Kristeva, translated by Caroline ArrudaPart II. The Violence of the Spectacle 3. Meaning against DeathKelly Oliver4. Kristeva’s Intimate Revolt and the Thought Specular: Encountering the (Mulholland) DriveFrances L. Restuccia5. Julia Kristeva and the Trajectory of the ImageJohn Lechte6. The Darkroom of the SoulRobyn Ferrell7. Julia Kristeva’s Chiasmatic Journeys:From Byzantium to the Phantom of Europe and the End of the WorldMaria MargaroniPart III. Intimacy and the Loss of Politics 8. Love’s Lost Labors:Subjectivity, Art, and PoliticsSara Beardsworth9. Symptomatic Reading:Kristeva on DurasLisa Walsh10. What Is Intimacy?S. K. Keltner11. Fear of Intimacy? Psychoanalysis and the Resistance to CommodificationCecilia Sjöholm12. Humanism, the Rights of Man, and the Nation-StateEmily Zakin13. Kristeva’s Uncanny Revolution:Imagining the Meaning of PoliticsJeff Edmonds14. Religion and the "Rights of Man" in Julia Kristeva’s WorkIdit AlphandarContributorsIndex