Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
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)