This article will be released in full online April 8, 2023. Matthew Sharpe discusses Aymeric Monville’s Misère du nietzschéisme de gauche (The Misery of Left…
It is Gallimard, his publisher, who announced the news: the writer Philippe Sollers died this Saturday, May 6, 2023. Author of dozens of novels, such as Le Parc, Paradis or more recently, Graal, he had received many awards for his work.
Since her arrival in France in 1965 and her meeting with the group "Tel Quel", Julia Kristeva has continued to cross the stages that metamorphose a curious girl into accomplished intellectual. As a linguist, literature theorist, psychoanalyst and novelist, Julia Kristeva has emerged as a dominant figure in the French and international scene through her writings, her practice, her teaching, her positions in the theoretical field and social. It is part of a circle of living thought, at the end of several disciplines, in the company of leading personalities. The "Holberg Prize" which has been awarded to him (equivalent of the Nobel Prize for the social sciences) bears witness to his reputation. The film presents Julia Kristeva during some interviews, conducted in Paris, which allow to discover his thought. They accompany different sequences of her personal life: on the island of Ré, where she spends long moments in the company of her husband, the writer Philippe Solle
The media have begun to value criticism, which now appears in newspapers and on radio and television, generally in a fairly harmless form. It allows them to be seen as final arbiter of all debates, even those that could expose their toxicity. By refusing the terms of so-called ‘media intellectuals', Pierre Bourdieu risked criticism, both by them and the newspapers that gave them authority.