Julia Kristeva

This Day in Philosophy — 9 September: Benhabib, Lacan, and what makes a person

Seyla Benhabib was born on 9 September 1950 and this year takes both the Johan Skytte Prize and the Karl Jaspers Prize. Jacques Lacan died on the date in 1981, John Passmore was born on it in 1914 and Paul Goodman in 1911 — four thinkers on what a person is made into.

Judith Butler, Slavoj Žižek, Jürgen Habermas, Julia Kristeva, Catherine Malabou, Alenka Zupančič, Seyla Benhabib

Julia Kristeva at 85: a line of thought from abjection to intertextuality

The Bulgarian-born French thinker turned 85 on 24 June. Kristeva, who visited Bulgaria in May, works with concepts that move between linguistics, psychoanalysis and feminism.