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A review by homoerotisch
Strangers to Ourselves by Julia Kristeva
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
the first and last chapter were the most interesting (even though i don't like freud that much)
an interesting thesis, but racing through ~3000 years of history on a concept in 200 pages makes it feel rushed. i wish kristeva had either written a longer book, or limited the scope to post-renaissance strangeness.
also, it takes a quite monolithic view of "the foreigner", discussions of class or gender would not have gone amiss in how they affect foreignness, particularly in the pre-freud chapters.
an interesting thesis, but racing through ~3000 years of history on a concept in 200 pages makes it feel rushed. i wish kristeva had either written a longer book, or limited the scope to post-renaissance strangeness.
also, it takes a quite monolithic view of "the foreigner", discussions of class or gender would not have gone amiss in how they affect foreignness, particularly in the pre-freud chapters.