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.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Lifework of Sarah Kofman Pleshette De Armitt
Part I. 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 De Armitt
3. Sarah Kofman’s Wit
Ann Smock
Part II. 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
About the author
Tina Chanter is Professor of Philosophy at De Paul University, and she has published several books, including
Revolt, Affect, Collectivity: The Unstable Boundaries of Kristeva’s Polis (coedited with Ewa PÂonowska Ziarek), also published by SUNY Press.
Pleshette De Armitt is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis.
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