Quote of the day
If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.
Julia Kristeva
Born: June 24, 1941 (age 83)
Bio: Julia Kristeva is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalyst, feminist, and, most recently, novelist, who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. She is now a professor at the University Paris Diderot.
Known for:
- Powers of Horror (1982)
- Revolution in Poetic Language (1974)
- The Kristeva reader (1986)
- Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia (1989)