“Keeping It in the Family”

Sarah Kofman Reading Nietzsche as a Jewish Woman

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ID21106366
AuthorsJoanne Faulkner (0000-0001-5694-181X, Faculty of Media, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume23
Issue1
Pages41-64
Publication date2008-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHypatia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0887-5367 • E-ISSN: 1527-2001
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1527-2001.2008.tb01165.x
OpenAlexW2033318460
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited14

This article examines Sarah Kofman's interpretation of Nietzsche in light of the claim that interpretation was for her both an articulation of her identity and a mode of deconstructing the very notion of identity. Faulkner argues that Kofman's work on Nietzsche can be understood as autobiographical, in that it served to mediate a relation to her self. Faulkner examines this relation with reference to Klein's model of the child's connection to its mother. By examining Kofman's later writings on Nietzsche alongside her autobiography, this article contends that Kofman's defense of anti-Semitism in Nietzsche serves to fend off her own ambivalence about being Jewish

Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Art · Biography · Close reading · Judaism · Literature · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Theology · Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity · Jewish Identity and Society · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology

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