The Abject, the Object, and the Thing

Julia Kristeva’s conception of the abject should be read as the inheritor of modernist aesthetics, as inaugurated by Kant. If Kant’s Critique of Judgment opens up the possibility that aesthetic reflective judgment is a condition of possibility for scientific rationality, then Kristeva’s “abject,” as...

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Main Author: Todd Kesselman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bucharest Publishing House 2009-11-01
Series:Styles of Communication
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Online Access:http://journals.univ-danubius.ro/index.php/communication/article/view/141