Nations Without Nationalism

In this short, very personal essay [Kristeva] appeals for a cosmopolitanism that transcends today’s more virulent forms of nationalism. * Foreign Affairs *Kristeva’s essays on nationalism eloquently express the aspiration toward a reasonable and cosmopolitan appreciation of national diversity. * Political Theory: An International Journal of Political Philosophy *Admirable for the urgency of its effort to rehabilitate a cosmopolitanism that acknowledges the claims of national identification even as it opposes nationalist intolerance. * Modernism/modernity *

Julia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII. A renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist, she has written dozens of books spanning semiotics, political theory, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique, as well as several novels and autobiographical works, published in English translation by Columbia University Press. Kristeva was the inaugural recipient of the Holberg International Memorial Prize in 2004 “for innovative explorations of questions on the intersection of language, culture, and literature.”

Leon S. Roudiez (1917–2004) was professor emeritus and former head of the French Department at Columbia University.