Reviews

Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection by Julia Kristeva

knittinggargoyle's review

challenging dark informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

Favorite philosophic text I've ever read, but still challenging... you know, because it's theory.

hildegardvonbingen's review

challenging informative reflective

isajervis's review

challenging dark slow-paced

4.0

allgutternopedestal's review

This is written beautifully but also so sparsely. I will need to come back to it after I read some contextual material about it. 

ozbtvs's review

5.0

"While everything else—its archeology and its exhaustion-is only literature: the sublime point at which the abject collapses in a burst of beauty that overwhelms us— and "that cancels our existence" (Céline)."

or; julia kristeva save me save me julia kristeva...

kapatin's review

4.0

“Because it occupies its place, because it hence decks itself out in the sacred power of horror, literature may also involve not an ultimate resistance to but an unveiling of the abject: an elaboration, a discharge, and a hollowing out of abjection through the Crisis of the Word.”


i forsee many a rereads

breadandmushrooms's review

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.25

alixf889's review

I keep trying to read this but I simply can never get into it. Kristeva is much smarter than me and perhaps that bothers me in some way. Will attempt again. 

chelsea_mh's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

3.75

orangecasio's review

challenging reflective slow-paced

3.0

Kristeva’s writing is so confusing. Incomprehensible even! An enjoyable philosophical thought all the same.