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Sarah Kofman and ancient thought : learning to live at last / John McKeane.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McKeane, John, 1984- author.
- Series:
- Classics in theory
- Classics in theory series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kofman, Sarah.
- Life.
- Philosophy, Ancient.
- Philosophy, French--20th century.
- Philosophy, French.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2026]
- Summary:
- This volume is four books in one: a monograph on Sarah Kofman; an exploration of the 'philosophy in-deed' group she formed with Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe; a study of ancient thought's reception in 20th-century France; and an exploration of the concept of life. It provides readings ranging across Kofman's work, including major works Nietzsche and the Philosophical Stage and Socrates: Fictions of a Philosopher. Much of this work is little-known in the Anglophone world. The book draws on a wealth of archival resources including correspondence running to hundreds of unpublished pages, as well as on Kofman's recorded interviews and the author's interviews with her contemporaries. The picture that emerges is of Kofman as an erudite yet provocative thinker.
- Contents:
- Thinking Life
- Sarah Kofman I: Writing the Self
- Sarah Kofman II: Philosophy In-deed
- Sarah Kofman III: Collaborations
- Pharmaceutics I: Nietzsche and the Philosophical Stage
- Pharmaceutics II: From Serenity to Health
- Pharmaceutics III: Stoics, Epicureans, Doctors
- Excursus: Living amid Strife: Empedocles, Heraclitus
- Plato I: Aporia and Dream
- Plato II: From Love to Romance with Socrates
- Plato III: Socratic Pedagogy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (Oxford Academic, viewed on August 13, 2026).
- Other Format:
- Print version : McKeane, John, 1984- Sarah Kofman and ancient thought.
- ISBN:
- 9780191999246
- 0191999245
- OCLC:
- 1598216053
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000408922
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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