{"product_id":"the-sense-and-nonsense-of-revolt","title":"The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt","description":"\u003cp\u003eLinguist  psychoanalyst  and cultural theorist  Julia Kristeva is one of the most influential and prolific thinkers of our time. Her writings have broken new ground in the study of the self  the mind  and the ways in which we communicate through language. Her work is unique in that it skillfully brings together psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice  literature  linguistics  and philosophy.  In her latest book on the powers and limits of psychoanalysis  Kristeva focuses on an intriguing new dilemma. Freud and psychoanalysis taught us that rebellion is what guarantees our independence and our creative abilities. But in our contemporary \"entertainment\" culture  is rebellion still a viable option? Is it still possible to build and embrace a counterculture? For whomand against whatand under what forms?  Kristeva illustrates the advances and impasses of rebel culture through the experiences of three twentieth-century writers: the existentialist John Paul Sartre  the surrealist Louis Aragon  and the theorist Roland Barthes. For Kristeva the rebellions championed by these figuresespecially the political and seemingly dogmatic political commitments of Aragon and Sartrestrike the post-Cold War reader with a mixture of fascination and rejection. These theorists  according to Kristeva  are involved in a revolution against accepted notions of identityof ones relation to others. Kristeva places their accomplishments in the context of other revolutionary movements in art  literature  and politics. The book also offers an illuminating discussion of Freuds groundbreaking work on rebellion  focusing on the symbolic function of patricide in his Totem and Taboo and discussing his often neglected vision of language  and underscoring its complex connection to the revolutionary drive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44955493040181,"sku":"ByrdShop_0231109962","price":63.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780231109963.jpg?v=1770309153","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-sense-and-nonsense-of-revolt","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}