This volume begins with a new essay by Julia Kristeva, ‘The Adolescent Novel’, in which she examines the relation between novelistic writing and the experience of adolescence as an ‘open structure’. It is this blend of the literary with the psychoanalytic that places Kristeva’s work central to current thinking, from semiotics and critical theory to feminism and psychoanalysis. The essays in this volume offer insight into the workings of Kristeva’s thought, ranging from her analyses of sexual difference, female temporality and the perceptions of the body to the mental states of abjection and melancholia, and their representation in painting and literature. Kristeva’s persistent humanity, her profound understanding of the dynamics of intention and creativity, mark her out as one of the leading theoreticians of desire. Each essay offers the reader a new insight into the many aspects that make up Kristeva’s entire oeuvre.

Product Description: Abstraction has not only been an important 20th-century art form, it has also given rise to one of the most significant and influential schools of criticism. This work seeks to offer different interpretations of abstraction. Texts by important current philosophers and critics, including Jean-Francois Lyotard, Stan Allen, John Rajchman, Andrew Benjamin, Maia Damianovic, John Lechte, Nick Millett and David Moos accompany features on work by some of the leading artists working currently in the field of abstraction, including Albert Ayme, Lydia Dona, David Reed, Fabian Marcaccio, Therese Oulton and Jessica Stockholder...read more

Product Description: With texts drawn from a diverse selection of contributors from many different disciplines, this latest issue of the "Journal of Philosophy and the Visual Arts" centres on the philosophical reconsideration of space in regard to painting and architecture and particularly gender...read more

Product Description: Armed Surfaces presents DRD Lab's investigations into contemporary reality and a new typology for living. An analysis of transitional moments in daily life instigates a re-examination of Modern Functionalism as an ideology of standardisation and normalcy.

Product Description: First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: Whether there is a sense of being contained or trapped in a body, or of viewing it from the outside, these emotions are frequently externalised in creativity. This issue deals incisively with the reaction, as a woman, to the idea of all humans having a sense of being 'contained' by the body...read more

Product Description: JPVA Journal of Philosophy and the Visual Arts No 6 Complexity Architecture / Art / Philosophy 'Beginning with complexity will involve working with the recognition that there has always been more than one. Here however this insistent "more than one" will be positioned beyond the scope of semantics; rather than complexity occurring within the range of meaning and taking the form of a generalised polysemy, it will be linked to the nature of the object and to its production...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 1993 edition. Very good, clean, unmarked copy. Slight rubbing on corners and edges. From private collection.

Product Description: Deconstruction in architecture and the visual arts is defined by writings and projects from around the world. Four sections present the work of major contributors such as Jacques Derrida, Peter Eisenman, Valerio Adami, Bernard Tschumi, Daniel Libeskind and many more...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Explains the concept of deconstruction, discusses the influence of the philosopher Jacques Derrida, and looks at examples of deconstruction in art and architecture

The work of Jean-Francois Lyotard signals the return of judgement to the centre of philosophical concerns. This collection of papers is the first devoted to his work and provides an estimation and critique of his writings, and included Lyotard's important essay on Sensus Communis.

Product Description: This is a review of the laws in the state of Washington as they relate to the mental health profession. Issues include: setting up a private practice; working with health care provider organizations; and understanding the duty to report abuse and neglect of children and adults.

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Product Description: In this important and highly original book, place, commonality and judgment provide the framework within which works central to the Greek philosophical and literary tradition are usefully located and reinterpreted. Greek life, it can be argued, was defined by the interconnection of place, commonality and judgment...read more

An introduction to the life of Pocahontas, a Native American woman who made friends with the first English colonists.