Justice, Injustice and the Work of Julia Kristeva

Taking a largely thematic approach, this reflection aims to demonstrate the richness of Julia Kristeva's theoretical work in relation to questions of justice and injustice. Injustice becomes primary because a definition of justice continues to be open to debate, whereas injustice as incarnate in the scapegoat as depicted by Rene Girard is far less so, if at all. Through her analyses of the work of Mallarme and the Paris of the Dreyfus affair, Celine and abjection and anti-Semitism, the 'need to believe' as a key component of subjectivity, the foreigner as the other in ourselves, Dostoyevsky and forgiveness, a vista is opened up onto injustice and how it might be combatted.