Enigmas : : Essays on Sarah Kofman / / ed. by Kelly Oliver, Penelope Deutscher.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Alexander, Natalie,; Chanter, Tina,; Deutscher, Penelope,; Duroux, Françoise,; Kofman, Sarah,; Lamarche, Pierre,; Large, Duncan,; Mader, Mary Beth,; Morgan, Diane,; Nancy, Jean-Luc,; Oliver, Kelly,; Patton, Paul,; Smock, Ann,
• HerausgeberIn: Deutscher, Penelope,; Oliver, Kelly,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

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 evaluates Kofman's most important contributions to philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, feminism, and literary theory. These insightful essays range from analyses of Kofman's first book, L'Enfance de l'art (1970), to her last, L'Imposture de la beauté (1995). This unique volume represents the major themes in Kofman's scholarship: literature and aesthetics; philosophy and metaphor; women, feminism, and psychoanalysis; and Jews and German nationalism. Selected essays explore and diagnose Kofman's personal struggles as they are reflected in her writing.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword: Run, Sarah! -- Introduction: Sarah Kofman’s Skirts -- PART I. LITERATURE AND AESTHETICS -- 1. The Imposture of Beauty: The Uncanniness of 25 Oscar Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray -- 2. Don Giovanni, or the Art of Disappointing 49 One’s Admirers -- 3. Kofman’s Hoffmann -- PART II. PHILOSOPHY AND METAPHOR -- 4. Suffering Contradiction: Kofman on Nietzsche’s 87 Critique of Logic -- 5. Nietzsche and Metaphor -- 6. Schemata of Ideology in Camera obscura and Specters of Marx -- 7. How a Woman Philosophizes -- PART III. WOMEN, FEMINISM, AND PSYCHOANALYSIS -- 8. Rending Kant's UmbreJia: Kofman’s Diagnosis of Ethical Law -- 9. Complicated Fidelity: Kofman’s Freud (Reading The Childhood of Art with The Enigma of Woman) -- 10. Sarah Kofman’s Queasy Stomach and the Riddle of the Paternal Law -- 11. Eating Words: Antigone as Kofman’s Proper Name -- PART IV. JEWS AND GERMAN NATIONALISM -- 12. Kofman, Nietzsche, and the jews -- 13. “Made in Germany”: Judging National Identity Negatively -- Notes -- Consolidated Bibliography -- Sarah Kofman: Bibliography, I963-I998 -- About the Contributors -- Index