What is the author's tone in Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection by Julia Kristeva?

Kristeva's tone manages to combine being both rigorously academic with being, at times, elegantly poetic. Though certainly a reflection of Kristeva's own identity as a person and a writer, this style is consistent and, in some ways, a consequence of her philosophical beliefs. Post-modernism is a rigorously theoretical and scientific enterprise which employs a large amount of technical vocabulary. This fact will probably jump out to the reader, and indeed, many readers will find the text completely unreadable as a result.