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The Severed Head: Capital Visions - European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Julia Kristeva
The Severed Head: Capital Visions - European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Julia Kristeva
Julia Kristeva turns her famed critical eye to a study of the human head as symbol and metaphor, as religious object and physical fact, further developing a critical theme in her work--the power of horror--and expanding the potential for the face to provide an experience of the sacred. Kristeva's study stretches far back in time to 6,000 B. C. E. with humans' early decoration and worship of skulls, and follows with an examination of the Medusa myth; the mandylion of Laon (a holy relic in which the face of a saint appears on a piece of cloth); the biblical stories of John the Baptist and Salome; tales of the guillotine; modern murder mysteries; and the rhetoric surrounding the fight for and against capital punishment. Drawing numerous connections between these "capital visions" and their experience, Kristeva affirms the possibility of the sacred, even in an era of "faceless" interaction.
176 pages, illustrations
Media | Boeken Paperback Book (Boek met zachte kaft en gelijmde rug) |
Vrijgegeven | 11 februari 2014 |
ISBN13 | 9780231157216 |
Uitgevers | Columbia University Press |
Pagina's | 176 |
Afmetingen | 131 × 202 × 12 mm · 274 g |
Taal en grammatica | Engels |
Vertaler | Gladding, Jody |
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