Sarah Kofman's corpus / edited by Tina Chanter and Pleshette DeArmitt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chanter, Tina, 1960-

DeArmitt, Pleshette, 1967-

Series:

SUNY series in gender theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kofman, Sarah.

Physical Description:

vii, 148 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, [2008]

Summary:

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:

Introduction: the lifework of Sarah Kofman / Pleshette DeArmitt

Art, affirmation and laughter

The question of art : Sarah Kofman's aesthetics / Duncan Large

Sarah Kofman's art of affirmation / Pleshette DeArmitt

Sarah Kofman's wit / Ann Smock

Philosophical fires : autobiography, femininity and Jewishness

Fire walls : Sarah Kofman's pyrotechnics / Michael Naas

Le mépris des anti-sémites : Kofman's Nietzsche and Nietzsche's Jews / Alan D. Schrift

Playing with fire : Kofman and Freud on being Jewish, feminine, and homosexual / Tina Chanter

Becoming : devenir-femme in the work of Sarah Kofman / Penelope Deutscher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-140) and index.

ISBN:

9780791472675

0791472671

9780791472682

079147268X

OCLC:

79256762