Selected Writings

by Sarah Kofman, Thomas Albrecht (Editor), Georgia Albert (With), Elizabeth G. Rottenberg (With)

Overview

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 books contents appear in English translation for the first time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780804732970
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Publication date:	09/27/2007
Series:	Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics Series
Edition description:	1
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Sarah Kofmans philosophical works currently available in English are: The Childhood of Art (1988), The Enigma of Woman: Woman in Freud's Writings (1985), Freud and Fiction (1991), and Nietzsche and Metaphor (Stanford, 1994). Thomas Albrecht is Assistant Professor of English at Tulane University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     IX
Editor's Preface   Thomas Albrecht     XI
Introduction   Jacques Derrida     1
Reading (with) Freud
The Double Reading     37
The Impossible Profession     56
Ca cloche     71
Nietzsche and the Scene of Philosophy
The Evil Eye     99
Scorning Jews: Nietzsche, the Jews, Anti-Semitism     123
With Respect to Woman
From The Enigma of Woman: Woman in Freud's Writings     159
The Economy of Respect: Kant and Respect for Women     187
The Truth in Painting
The Melancholy of Art     205
The Resemblance of Portraits: Imitation According to Diderot     218
Conjuring Death: Remarks on The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Nicolas Tulp (1632)     237
Judaism and Anti-Semitism / Autobiography
Shoah (or Dis-grace)     245
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     255
Contributors     297

Editorial Reviews

"Kofman had something to say, and her writings still command attention for their insight, their adventurousness,and their attentiveness to the philosophical traditions with which she so productively wrestled. She was one of the great readers of Freud in the twentieth century, and she brought the same caring intelligence to her interpretations of Nietzsche."—BookForum

From the Publisher

"Kofman had something to say, and her writings still command attention for their insight, their adventurousness,and their attentiveness to the philosophical traditions with which she so productively wrestled. She was one of the great readers of Freud in the twentieth century, and she brought the same caring intelligence to her interpretations of Nietzsche."

BookForum