Enigmas: Essays on Sarah Kofman

Published by Cornell University Press 1999

Enigmas

Essays on Sarah Kofman

Edited by: Penelope Deutscher and Kelly Oliver
Preface by: Jean-Luc Nancy

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501723742

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The work of the distinguished philosopher Sarah Kofman has, since her tragic death in 1994, become a focus for many scholars interested in contemporary French philosophy. The first critical collection on her thought to appear in English, Enigmas...

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Penelope Deutscher is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Australian National University. She is the author of Yielding Gender: Feminism, Deconstruction and the History of Philosophy. Kelly Oliver is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. Her most recent book is Family Values: Subjects between Nature and Culture.

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The editors of this volume remain faithful to Kofman's own insistence on the relationship between life and text, between living and writing. Since her death by suicide in 1994, Kofman's work has slowly been gaining its deserved recognition on the global scene, and this vitally interesting and diverse volume will certainly help that end.... The beauty of this volume lies in its quality and cohesiveness as a tribute to a philosopher's life, not just her work.

The editors of Enigmas carefully negotiate the difficult boundary between establishing Kofman's legacy in order to preserve her work from the assimilation (notable to Derrida's) of which she often complained, and 'fixing' this legacy in a way that would be unfaithful to her constant emphasis on the instability of meanings and the heterogeneity of texts. They also deftly handle the issue of the relation between life and work that arises for any commemorative project, espousing Kofman's own conviction that to oppose biography and textuality is to reproduce, in inverse form, the error of conflating them.

Kofman is a typical product of the French Academy except that she brings an exceptional talent to the practice. The essays in this collection... establish this with considerable efficacy.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Foreword: Run, Sarah! Jean-Luc Nancy Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Introduction: Sarah Kofman’s Skirts Penelope Deutscher and Kelly Oliver Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I. LITERATURE AND AESTHETICS
1. The Imposture of Beauty: The Uncanniness of 25 Oscar Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray Sarah Kofman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
2. Don Giovanni, or the Art of Disappointing 49 One’s Admirers Ann Smock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
3. Kofman’s Hoffmann Duncan Large Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
PART II. PHILOSOPHY AND METAPHOR
4. Suffering Contradiction: Kofman on Nietzsche’s 87 Critique of Logic Mary Beth Mader Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
5. Nietzsche and Metaphor Paul Patton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
6. Schemata of Ideology in Camera obscura and Specters of Marx Pierre Lamarche Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
7. How a Woman Philosophizes Françoise Duroux Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
PART III. WOMEN, FEMINISM, AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
8. Rending Kant's UmbreJia: Kofman’s Diagnosis of Ethical Law Natalie Alexander Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
9. Complicated Fidelity: Kofman’s Freud (Reading The Childhood of Art with The Enigma of Woman) Penelope Deutscher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
10. Sarah Kofman’s Queasy Stomach and the Riddle of the Paternal Law Kelly Oliver Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
11. Eating Words: Antigone as Kofman’s Proper Name Tina Chanter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
PART IV. JEWS AND GERMAN NATIONALISM
12. Kofman, Nietzsche, and the jews Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
13. “Made in Germany”: Judging National Identity Negatively Diane Morgan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Consolidated Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
Sarah Kofman: Bibliography, I963-I998 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	264
About the Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	276
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 304
Keywords: Literary Studies; Philosophy; Gender Studies

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