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Enigmas : Essays on Sarah Kofman /

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 t...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Oliver, Kelly, 1958-, Deutscher, Penelope, 1966-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1999.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; ENIGMAS: ESSAYS ON SARAH KOFMAN; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword: Run, Sarah!; Introduction: Sarah Kofman's Skirts; I LITERATURE AND AESTHETICS; 1. The Imposture of Beauty: The Uncanniness of Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray; 2. Don Giovanni, or the Art of Disappointing One's Admirers; 3. Kofman's Hoffmann; II PHILOSOPHY AND METAPHOR; 4. Suffering Contradiction: Kofman on Nietzsche's Critique of Logic; 5. Nietzsche and Metaphor; 6. Schemata of Ideology in Camera obscura and Specters of Marx; 7. How a Woman Philosophizes; III WOMEN, FEMINISM, AND PSYCHOANALYSIS.
  • 8. Rending Kant's Umbrella: Kofman's Diagnosis of Ethical Law9. 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; 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, 1963-1998; About the Contributors; Index.