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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.
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.
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| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2014 |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Reihe: | European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780231157216 |
| ISBN-10: | 0231157215 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Julie Kristeva |
| Übersetzung: | Gladding, Jody |
| Hersteller: |
Columbia University Press
European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de |
| Abbildungen: | 18 illus. |
| Maße: | 208 x 139 x 17 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Julie Kristeva |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 11.02.2014 |
| Gewicht: | 0,266 kg |
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