Sarah Kofman's Corpus

Tina Chanter is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, and she has published several books, including Revolt, Affect, Collectivity: The Unstable Boundaries of Kristeva's Polis (coedited with Ewa PÂonowska Ziarek), also published by SUNY Press. Pleshette DeArmitt is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis.

"The first to incorporate Kofman's work into the current debates animating continental philosophy, Sarah Kofman's Corpus offers impressive contributions to the literature on Freud and Nietzsche, as well as feminist theory, philosophy of art, and Holocaust studies. It invigorates the contemporary landscape of French thought with the stakes introduced by Kofman's oeuvre, which emerges here in all its richness and irreverence, a call to engage anew with affirmation and becoming." — Margret Grebowicz, editor of Gender after Lyotard

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Lifework of Sarah Kofman Pleshette DeArmittPartI. Art, Affirmation, and Laughter 1. "The Question of Art": Sarah Kofman’s AestheticsDuncan Large2. Sarah Kofman’s Art of Affirmation, or the "Non-illusory Life of an Illusion"Pleshette DeArmitt3. Sarah Kofman’s WitAnn SmockPartII. Philosophical Fires: Autobiography, Femininity, and Jewishness 4. Fire Walls: Sarah Kofman’s PyrotechnicsMichael Naas5. Le mépris des anti-sémites:Kofman’s Nietzsche and Nietzsche’s JewsAlan D.Schrift6. Playing with Fire:Kofman and Freud on Being Feminine, Jewish, and HomosexualTina Chanter7. Becoming: Devenir-femmein the Work of Sarah KofmanPenelope DeutscherReferencesContributorsIndex