Contempt for the Whos? or: How to Read Nietzsche Autobiographically after the Death of the Bios

This paper examines French philosopher Sarah Kofman’s fractured relationships to her identities as Jew and woman. Active participant in postwar debates surrounding deconstruction and psychoanalysis, acclaimed reader of Freud and Nietzsche, and interlocutor of Derrida, Kofman is today most widely rem...

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Main Author: Swanson, Joel (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2022
In: Religions
Year: 2022, Volume: 13, Issue: 3
Further subjects:B Self-identity
B Deconstruction
B Holocaust
B Modern Jewish Thought
B Nietzsche
B Psychoanalysis
B Freud
B Philosophy of religion
B France
B Antisemitism
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