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Draws connections between the life and writings of philosopher Sarah Kofman.
This groundbreaking collection sketches a portrait of Sarah Kofman (1934-1994), the brilliant French feminist philosopher and author of more than two dozen books on an impressive range of topics and figures in philosophy, literature, psychoanalysis, aesthetics, and feminism. Leading feminist philosophers examine the lessons that Kofman's rich body of work teaches us, among them that the work and life of a thinker are inextricably bound together. Each essay navigates the complex connections between work and life, thought and desire, the book and the body to explore the central themes that link together Kofman's interdisciplinary oeuvre-art, affirmation, laughter, the intolerable, Jewishness, and femininity.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Lifework of Sarah Kofman Pleshette DeArmitt
PartI. Art, Affirmation, and Laughter
1. "The Question of Art": Sarah Kofman's Aesthetics
Duncan Large
2. Sarah Kofman's Art of Affirmation, or the "Non-illusory Life of an Illusion"
Pleshette DeArmitt
3. Sarah Kofman's Wit
Ann Smock
PartII. Philosophical Fires: Autobiography, Femininity, and Jewishness
4. Fire Walls: Sarah Kofman's Pyrotechnics
Michael Naas
5. Le mépris des anti-sémites:Kofman's Nietzsche and Nietzsche's Jews
Alan D.Schrift
6. Playing with Fire:Kofman and Freud on Being Feminine, Jewish, and Homosexual
Tina Chanter
7. Becoming: Devenir-femmein the Work of Sarah Kofman
Penelope Deutscher
References
Contributors
Index
