Quote by: Julia Kristeva

Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was for Hannah Arendt, the field where human freedom is unfurled. The modern world, the world of world war, the Third World, the underground world of death that acts upon us, do not have the civilized splendor of the Greek city state. The modern political domain is massively, in totalitarian fashion, social, leveling, exhausting. Hence madness is a space of antisocial, apolitical, and paradoxically free individuation


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Author Bio


  • NameJulia Kristeva
  • DescriptionFeminist, philosopher
  • BornJune 24, 1941
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionPhilosopher; Psychologist; Novelist; Writer; Sociologist
  • AwardsOfficer Of The Legion Of Honour; Commander Of The National Order Of Merit; Holberg International Memorial Prize; Hannah Arendt Prize