Bøger af Sarah Kofman

Den franske filosof Sarah Kofmans selvbiografiske fortælling om sin barndom i Paris foregår under den tyske besættelse af Frankrig. I et direkte og nøgternt sprog, uden patos, beskriver Kofman, hvordan hendes far, rabbiner i den lokale synagoge, bliver deporteret fra deres hjem i Rue Ordener. Efter utallige forsøg på at skjule sig søger hun med sin mor tilflugt hos en kristen kvinde i Rue Labat, hvor de bliver indtil befrielsen. Kvinden, som blot kaldes mémé, bliver en slags adoptivmor for Kofman, og deres tætte forhold får uoverskuelige konsekvenser: ikke blot for forholdet til hendes biologiske mor, men også hendes jødiske identitet og religion. For Kofman bliver splittelsen – mellem to mødre, to religioner, to identiteter, to gader – et eksistentielt grundvilkår.

This long-overdue translation brings to the English-speaking world the work that set the tone for the post-structuralist reading of Nietzsche.

A memoir by the author who presents an account of the horrifying moment in July 1942 when her father, the rabbi of a small synagogue, was dragged by police from the family home on Rue Ordener in Paris, then transported to Auschwitz. It recounts the horrors of her childhood.

Socrates is an elusive figure, Sarah Kofman asserts, and he is necessarily so since he did not write or directly state his beliefs. "With Socrates," she writes in her introduction, "we will never leave fiction behind." Kofman suggests that Socrates's...

Addresses the question of metaphor in Nietzsche, providing an unusual reading of his ideas and an incisive method for investigating his style. Kofman's translated works include "The Enigma of Women: Women in Freud's Writings" (1985), "The Childhood of Art" (1988) and "Freud and Fiction" (1991).

The Sarah Kofman Reader is a comprehensive anthology of significant essays and book excerpts by the postwar French philosopher and theorist Sarah Kofman (1934-1994).

This volume will help English readers to reconsider the relation of deconstruction to current political theory as well as to research into the post-human, biopolitics, globalised political theory, and the on-going transformation and displacement of philosophy by the methods of cultural studies.

Marx, Freud, Nietzsche-in vastly different ways all three employed the metaphor of the camera obscura in their work. In this classic book-at last available in an English translation-the distinguished French philosopher Sarah Kofman offers an extended...