The Severed Head: Capital Visions - European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism - Julia Kristeva - Libros - Columbia University Press - 9780231157209 - 20 de diciembre de 2011
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The Severed Head: Capital Visions - European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism


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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.


176 pages, Illustrations

Medios de comunicación Libros     Hardcover Book   (Libro con lomo y cubierta duros)
Publicado 20 de diciembre de 2011
ISBN13 9780231157209
Editores Columbia University Press
Páginas 176
Dimensiones 217 × 166 × 18 mm   ·   352 g
Lengua Inglés  
Traductor Gladding, Jody

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