Biography
Kofman began her teaching career inWritings
Though many of her philosophical writings focused on Nietzsche and Freud, Kofman wrote several works in an autobiographical vein. ' (1987) is dedicated to the memory of her father, rabbi Bereck Kofman, whom she saw for the last time on 16 July 1942, and who was killed at Auschwitz. ''Rue Ordener, rue Labat'' (1994) also opens with the removal of her father by the French police, and describes what Kofman understands to have been his fate. The title refers to two Parisian streets: the address at which her family lived until her father's arrest; and the address at which she was sheltered for much of the remainder of the war. Kofman was taken in by a Parisian divorcée who became her surrogate mother and whom she called Mémé. The book tells the story of this period, and of the custody dispute between Mémé and Kofman's mother following the liberation of Paris.Death
Kofman committedBibliography
Books
*''L'enfance de l'art: Une interprétation de l'esthétique freudienne'' (1970). Trans.: ''The Childhood of Art: An Interpretation of Freud'sArticles
Note: this list does not include portions of books where a translation of the entire book was subsequently published. *"No Longer Full-Fledged ''Autobiogriffies''," ''SubStance'' 29 (1981): 3–22. From: ''Autobiogriffures'' (1976). *"Sartre: Fort! Ou Da?", ''Diacritics'' 14, 4 (1984): 9–18. *"Damned Food," ''SubStance'' 49 (1986): 8–9. *"Tomb for a Proper Name," ''SubStance'' 49 (1986): 9–10. *"Nightmare: At the Margins of Medieval Studies," ''SubStance'' 49 (1986): 10–13. From: ''Comment s'en sortir?'' (1983). *" Prometheus, the First Philosopher," ''SubStance'' 50 (1986): 26–35. From: ''Comment s'en sortir?'' (1983). *"Nietzsche and the Obscurity of Heraclitus," ''Diacritics'' 17, 3 (1987): 39–55. From: ''Séductions: De Sartre à Héraclite'' (1990). *"Baubô: Theological Perversion and Fetishism," in Michael Allen Gillespie & Tracy B. Strong, ''Nietzsche's New Seas: Explorations in Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Politics'' (Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1988). From: ''Nietzsche et la scène philosophique'' (1979). *"Beyond Aporia?", in Andrew Benjamin (ed.), ''Post-structuralist Classics'' (London & New York: Routledge, 1988). From: ''Comment s'en sortir?'' (1983). *"'Ça cloche'," in Hugh J. Silverman (ed.), ''Derrida and Deconstruction'' (New York & London: Routledge, 1989). From: ''Lectures de Derrida'' (1984). Originally delivered at the 1980 Cerisy colloquy, "Les fins de l'homme." *"Conversions: ''The Merchant of Venice'' under the Sign of Saturn," in Peter Collier & Helga Geyer-Ryan (eds.), ''Literary Theory Today'' (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1990). From: ''Conversions:'' Le Marchand de Venise ''sous le signe de Saturne'' (1987). *"Metaphoric Architectures," in Laurence A. Rickels (ed.), ''Looking After Nietzsche'' (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990). *" Descartes Entrapped," in Eduardo Cadava, Peter Connor, & Jean-Luc Nancy, ''Who Comes After the Subject?'' (New York & London: Routledge, 1991). From: ''Nietzsche et la scène philosophique'' (1979). *"Rousseau's Phallocratic Ends," in *"Explosion I: Of Nietzsche's ''Ecce Homo''," ''Diacritics'' 24, 4 (1994): 50–70. From: ''Explosion I: De l'"Ecce Homo" de Nietzsche'' (1992). *"A Fantastical Genealogy: Nietzsche's Family Romance," in Peter J. Burgard (ed.), ''Nietzsche and the Feminine'' (Charlottesville & London: University Press of Virginia, 1994). From: ''Explosion I: De l'"Ecce Homo" de Nietzsche'' (1992). *"'It's Only the First Step That Costs'," in Sonu Shamdasani & Michael Münchow (eds.), ''Speculations After Freud: Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, Culture'' (London & New York: Routledge, 1994). From: ''"Il n'y a que le premier pas qui coûte": Freud et la spéculation'' (1991). *" Wagner's Ascetic Ideal According to Nietzsche," in Richard Schacht (ed.), ''Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality: Essays on Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals'' (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994). *"The Psychologist of the Eternal Feminine (Why I Write Such Good Books, 5)," ''Yale French Studies'' 87 (1995): 173–89. From: ''Explosion II: Les enfants de Nietzsche'' (1993). *"Accessories (''Ecce Homo'', 'Why I Write Such Good Books,' 'The Untimelies,' 3)," in Peter R. Sedgwick (ed.), ''Nietzsche: A Critical Reader'' (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995). From: ''Explosion II: Les enfants de Nietzsche'' (1993). *"The Economy of Respect: Kant and Respect for Women," in Robin May Schott (ed.), ''Feminist Interpretations of Immanuel Kant'' (University Park, Penn.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997). From: ''Le respect des femmes (Kant et Rousseau)'' (1982). *"The Imposture of Beauty: The Uncanniness of Oscar Wilde's ''Picture of Dorian Gray''," in Penelope Deutscher & Kelly Oliver (eds.), ''Enigmas: Essays on Sarah Kofman'' (Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1999). From: ''L'imposture de la beauté et autres textes'' (1995).Interviews
*"Sarah Kofman," interview with Alice Jardine, in Alice Jardine & Anne M. Menke (eds.), ''Shifting Scenes: Interviews on Women, Writing, and Politics in Post-68 France'' (New York & Oxford: Columbia University Press, 1991). *"Writing without Power: A Conversation with Sarah Kofman," interview with Ursula Konnertz, ''Women's Philosophy Review'' (June 1995): 5–8.See also
* List of thinkers influenced by deconstructionReferences
Further reading
* Botz-Bornstein, Thorsten, 'Respect and Shame: Sarah Kofman on Veiling' in T. Botz-Bornstein, ''Veils, Nudity, and Tattoos: The New Feminine Aesthetics'' (Lanham: Lexington-Rowman & Littlefield, 2015), 71–79. *Chanter, Tina, & Pleshette DeArmitt (eds.), ''Sarah Kofman's Corpus'' (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008). *Deutscher, Penelope, & Kelly Oliver (eds.), ''Enigmas: Essays on Sarah Kofman'' (Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1999). Includes a foreword by Jean-Luc Nancy and an extensive bibliography of Kofman's writing. *Faulkner, Joanne, 'Keeping it in the Family’: Sarah Kofman Reading Nietzsche as a Jewish Woman." ''Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy''. 23 January–March 2008: 41-64. *Robson, KathrynExternal links
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