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Selected writings / Sarah Kofman ; edited by Thomas Albrecht, with Georgia Albert and Elizabeth Rottenberg ; introduction by Jacques Derrida.
LIBRA B2430.K642 E6 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kofman, Sarah.
- Series:
- Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)
- Meridian : crossing aesthetics
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections. English. 2007
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, French--20th century.
- Philosophy, French.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 297 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- Sarah Kofman (1934-1994), Professor of Philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris and the author of over twenty books, was one of the most significant postwar thinkers in France. Kofman's scholarship was wide-ranging and included work on Freud and psychoanalysis, Nietzsche, feminism and the role of women in Western philosophy, visual art, and literature. The child of Polish Jewish immigrants who lost her father in the Holocaust, she also was interested in Judaism and anti-Semitism, especially as reflected in works of literature and philosophy. This book is an anthology of some of Kofman's most significant writings on these and other topics. Its purpose is to provide a general introduction to Kofman's thought, which has been highly influential in both Europe and America. Although some of the selections have been published previously, the majority of the book's contents appear in English translation for the first time.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Reading (with) Freud
- 1 The Double Reading 37
- 2 The Impossible Profession 56
- 3 Ca cloche 71
- Part 2 Nietzsche and the Scene of Philosophy
- 4 The Evil Eye 99
- 5 Scorning Jews: Nietzsche, the Jews, Anti-Semitism 123
- Part 3 With Respect to Woman
- 6 From The Enigma of Woman: Woman in Freud's Writings 159
- 7 The Economy of Respect: Kant and Respect for Women 187
- Part 4 The Truth in Painting
- 8 The Melancholy of Art 205
- 9 The Resemblance of Portraits: Imitation According to Diderot 218
- 10 Conjuring Death: Remarks on The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Nicolas Tulp (1632) 237
- Part 5 Judaism and Anti-Semitism / Autobiography
- 11 Shoah (or Dis-grace) 245
- 12 Autobiographical Writings 247
- Damned Food 247
- Tomb for a Proper Name 248
- Post-scriptum-1992 249
- "My Life" and Psychoanalysis 250
- Nightmare: At the Margins of Medieval Studies 251.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-296).
- ISBN:
- 9780804732963
- 0804732965
- 9780804732970
- 0804732973
- OCLC:
- 148725295
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