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...
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.
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.
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