Maria Margaroni
Biographic Data
| ID | 351866 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Margaroni |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Margaroni |
| SIGNATURE | MARGARONI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cyprus |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1823-8821 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Cyborg, Dark Matter and the Pursuit of Transcendence
This paper will focus on Kristeva’s 2015 novel L’Horloge enchantée. Like other fictional and non-fictional works by Kristeva, L’Horloge enchantée returns to two formative moments of European culture, namely, the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, in an attempt to rethink the controversial legacy of these moments in the face of contemporary challenges. The main protagonist of L’Horloge enchantée, a psychoanalyst of Jewish origins, develops a…
The Plastic Turn by Ghosh, Ranjan (review)
The Biological Unconscious, Memory and Identity in Charles Fernyhough’s A Box of Birds
This essay proposes to critically engage with dominant materialist and narrative models of human identity, addressing the old, ‘tired’ question of subjectivity from a twenty-first century perspective. Drawing on contemporary neuroscientific theory and Lacanian psychoanalysis, I aim to read Charles Fernyhough’s A Box of Birds (2012) as a creative reflection on the nature of memory, consciousness and the unconscious. As I shall demonstrate, what li…
Julia Kristeva's Voyage in the Thérèsian Continent
Drawing on Julia Kristeva's amorous dialogue with Therese in Therese, mon amour, her third volume on the powers and limits of psychoanalysis (La haine et le pardon), and Cet incroyable besoin de croire, my aim in this essay is to unpack Kristeva's theory of sublimation which, I suggest, Therese helps her elaborate, enrich and complicate. In particular, I focus on Kristeva's foregrounding of the mediating role of language in the sublimatory proces…
Continental Philosophy
This chapter focuses on books published in the field of Continental philosophy in 2009 and is divided in two sections: 1 . Oblique Biopolitics, Post-Fordist Happiness and the Dialectic of Inhumanism: Juxtaposing Hardt, Negri and Badiou. This section, written by Marios Constantinou, discusses Hardt and Negri’s Commonwealth against the background of their earlier work, notably, Empire ; it traces critically the nodal points of this trajectory, mark…
Continental Philosophy
This chapter focuses on books published in the field of Continental Philosophy in 2008 and is divided into two sections: 1. ‘ Il loro medio ’: The Continuing Challenge of Continental Thought. In this section Maria Margaroni picks up a recurring thread in the fabric of continental philosophy (i.e. the co-implication of poetry and thought) in order to illuminate the aims, stakes and overall contribution of two studies focusing on different generati…
Chapter 1 * Continental Philosophy
This chapter focuses on books published in the field of Continental Philosophy in 2007 and is divided into two Sections: 1. Assembling the Lacanian Left in a Post-Democratic Age: The Passion for the Real and the Aesthetics of Emancipation from Castoriadis to Badiou; 2. Giorgio Agamben and the Infantile Task of Philosophy. Section 1 is by Marios Constantinou; Section 2 by Maria Margaroni.
Continental Philosophy
This chapter focuses on books published in the field of Continental Philosophy in 2006 and is divided into two sections: 1. The ‘Deleuze Effect’: An Ethics of Life, a Revolution of Desire, a Philosophy of History; 2. The Rehabilitation of Materialism in Post-Lacanian Psychoanalysis and its Polemical Implications for the Politics of Exception: Žižek, Badiou, Rancière. Section 1 is by Maria Margaroni; section 2 is by Marios Constantinou.
How Does the Perfect Theorist Fall
It was about ten years ago when (only a fresh Ph.D. at the time) I first tried to grapple with the question of theory and its present state or states. My concern at that time was what I saw as a sh
Continental Philosophy
Byzantium
Recent Work on and by Julia Kristeva
Metaphoricity and the Politics of Mobility
This collection of essays investigates the convergence between the postmodern politics of mobility and a politics of metaphor, a politics, in other words, in the context of which the production and displacement of meaning(s) constitute the major stakes. Ranging from discussions of re-territorialization, multiculturalism, “digisporas” and transnational politics and ethics, to September 11th, the Pentagon’s New Map, American legislation on Chinese …
Response
Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless night, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this.
Continental Philosophy
This chapter focuses on books published in the field of Continental philosophy in 2003 and is divided into three sections: 1. Introductory Books/Anthologies; 2. Continental Ethics; 3. A Baudrillard Double Bill.
Postmodern Crises of Mediation and the Passing of the Museum
In The Broken Middle: Out of Our Ancient Society, a book about the crisis of mediation in postmodernity, Gillian Rose accuses contemporary philosophy and social theory of having displaced the middl
The Lost Foundation”
The aim of this essay is to reclaim Kristeva's concept of the semiotic chora by re-inscribing it as an intervention in the context of two important postmodern debates. The first debate relates to the philosophical problem of “the beginning before the Beginning.” The second concerns the necessity and possibility of mediation between incommensurable entities: the “demonic” and the social, desire and the Law, material production and representation. …
The Lost Foundation
Jane Campion's Selling of the Mother/Land
Maria Margaroni is an assistant professor of English at the University of Cyprus. Her main publications are in the areas of twentieth-century British fiction and drama, continental philosophy, and feminism. Her current projects include a book manuscript, “Mediation and Difference in Contemporary Feminism,” and an edited collection of essays, “Metaphoricity and Postmodern Politics.”
The Lost Foundation”
The aim of this essay is to reclaim Kristeva's concept of the semiotic chora by re-inscribing it as an intervention in the context of two important postmodern debates. The first debate relates to the philosophical problem of “the beginning before the Beginning.” The second concerns the necessity and possibility of mediation between incommensurable entities: the “demonic” and the social, desire and the Law, material production and representation. …
Jane Campion's Selling of the Mother/Land
Maria Margaroni is an assistant professor of English at the University of Cyprus. Her main publications are in the areas of twentieth-century British fiction and drama, continental philosophy, and feminism. Her current projects include a book manuscript, “Mediation and Difference in Contemporary Feminism,” and an edited collection of essays, “Metaphoricity and Postmodern Politics.”
Julia Kristeva's Voyage in the Thérèsian Continent
Drawing on Julia Kristeva's amorous dialogue with Therese in Therese, mon amour, her third volume on the powers and limits of psychoanalysis (La haine et le pardon), and Cet incroyable besoin de croire, my aim in this essay is to unpack Kristeva's theory of sublimation which, I suggest, Therese helps her elaborate, enrich and complicate. In particular, I focus on Kristeva's foregrounding of the mediating role of language in the sublimatory proces…
Jane Campion's Selling of the Mother/Land
Maria Margaroni is an assistant professor of English at the University of Cyprus. Her main publications are in the areas of twentieth-century British fiction and drama, continental philosophy, and feminism. Her current projects include a book manuscript, “Mediation and Difference in Contemporary Feminism,” and an edited collection of essays, “Metaphoricity and Postmodern Politics.”
Response
Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless night, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this.
Continental Philosophy
This chapter focuses on books published in the field of Continental philosophy in 2003 and is divided into three sections: 1. Introductory Books/Anthologies; 2. Continental Ethics; 3. A Baudrillard Double Bill.
Postmodern Crises of Mediation and the Passing of the Museum
In The Broken Middle: Out of Our Ancient Society, a book about the crisis of mediation in postmodernity, Gillian Rose accuses contemporary philosophy and social theory of having displaced the middl
The Lost Foundation”
The aim of this essay is to reclaim Kristeva's concept of the semiotic chora by re-inscribing it as an intervention in the context of two important postmodern debates. The first debate relates to the philosophical problem of “the beginning before the Beginning.” The second concerns the necessity and possibility of mediation between incommensurable entities: the “demonic” and the social, desire and the Law, material production and representation. …
The Lost Foundation
Metaphoricity and the Politics of Mobility
This collection of essays investigates the convergence between the postmodern politics of mobility and a politics of metaphor, a politics, in other words, in the context of which the production and displacement of meaning(s) constitute the major stakes. Ranging from discussions of re-territorialization, multiculturalism, “digisporas” and transnational politics and ethics, to September 11th, the Pentagon’s New Map, American legislation on Chinese …
Continental Philosophy
Byzantium
Recent Work on and by Julia Kristeva
Continental Philosophy
This chapter focuses on books published in the field of Continental Philosophy in 2006 and is divided into two sections: 1. The ‘Deleuze Effect’: An Ethics of Life, a Revolution of Desire, a Philosophy of History; 2. The Rehabilitation of Materialism in Post-Lacanian Psychoanalysis and its Polemical Implications for the Politics of Exception: Žižek, Badiou, Rancière. Section 1 is by Maria Margaroni; section 2 is by Marios Constantinou.
How Does the Perfect Theorist Fall
It was about ten years ago when (only a fresh Ph.D. at the time) I first tried to grapple with the question of theory and its present state or states. My concern at that time was what I saw as a sh
Chapter 1 * Continental Philosophy
This chapter focuses on books published in the field of Continental Philosophy in 2007 and is divided into two Sections: 1. Assembling the Lacanian Left in a Post-Democratic Age: The Passion for the Real and the Aesthetics of Emancipation from Castoriadis to Badiou; 2. Giorgio Agamben and the Infantile Task of Philosophy. Section 1 is by Marios Constantinou; Section 2 by Maria Margaroni.
Continental Philosophy
This chapter focuses on books published in the field of Continental Philosophy in 2008 and is divided into two sections: 1. ‘ Il loro medio ’: The Continuing Challenge of Continental Thought. In this section Maria Margaroni picks up a recurring thread in the fabric of continental philosophy (i.e. the co-implication of poetry and thought) in order to illuminate the aims, stakes and overall contribution of two studies focusing on different generati…
Continental Philosophy
This chapter focuses on books published in the field of Continental philosophy in 2009 and is divided in two sections: 1 . Oblique Biopolitics, Post-Fordist Happiness and the Dialectic of Inhumanism: Juxtaposing Hardt, Negri and Badiou. This section, written by Marios Constantinou, discusses Hardt and Negri’s Commonwealth against the background of their earlier work, notably, Empire ; it traces critically the nodal points of this trajectory, mark…
Julia Kristeva's Voyage in the Thérèsian Continent
Drawing on Julia Kristeva's amorous dialogue with Therese in Therese, mon amour, her third volume on the powers and limits of psychoanalysis (La haine et le pardon), and Cet incroyable besoin de croire, my aim in this essay is to unpack Kristeva's theory of sublimation which, I suggest, Therese helps her elaborate, enrich and complicate. In particular, I focus on Kristeva's foregrounding of the mediating role of language in the sublimatory proces…
The Biological Unconscious, Memory and Identity in Charles Fernyhough’s A Box of Birds
This essay proposes to critically engage with dominant materialist and narrative models of human identity, addressing the old, ‘tired’ question of subjectivity from a twenty-first century perspective. Drawing on contemporary neuroscientific theory and Lacanian psychoanalysis, I aim to read Charles Fernyhough’s A Box of Birds (2012) as a creative reflection on the nature of memory, consciousness and the unconscious. As I shall demonstrate, what li…
The Plastic Turn by Ghosh, Ranjan (review)
The Cyborg, Dark Matter and the Pursuit of Transcendence
This paper will focus on Kristeva’s 2015 novel L’Horloge enchantée. Like other fictional and non-fictional works by Kristeva, L’Horloge enchantée returns to two formative moments of European culture, namely, the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, in an attempt to rethink the controversial legacy of these moments in the face of contemporary challenges. The main protagonist of L’Horloge enchantée, a psychoanalyst of Jewish origins, develops a…
Epistemology (12 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Continental philosophy (5 works) · History (5 works)