CANCELLED Alice Jardine at Harvard Book Store

Date: 

Friday, March 27, 2020, 7:00pm to 8:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138

At the Risk of Thinking book cover Harvard Book Store welcomes Harvard professor Alice Jardine—translator of Julia Kristeva's Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art—for a discussion of her latest book, At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva.

At the Risk of Thinking is the first biography of Julia Kristeva—one of the most celebrated intellectuals in the world. Alice Jardine brings Kristeva's work to a broader readership by connecting Kristeva's personal journey, from her childhood in Communist Bulgaria to her adult life as an international public intellectual based in Paris, with the history of her ideas. Informed by extensive interviews with Kristeva herself, this telling of a remarkable woman's life story also draws out the complexities of Kristeva's writing, emphasizing her call for an urgent revival of bold interdisciplinary thinking in order to understand—and to act in—today's world.

For more information, please see the Harvard Book Store website