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17 - Sarah Kofman

from II - POLITICS OF THE CINEMATIC CENTURY

By
Tom Conley
Edited by
Felicity Colman
Tom Conley
Affiliation:
Harvard University
Felicity Colman
Affiliation:
Manchester Metropolitan University
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Summary

Sarah Kofman (1934–94) was a French philosopher who held a Chair at the Sorbonne in Paris from 1991. She studied under Jean Hyppolite and Gilles Deleuze. She published more than twenty books of critical philosophy, including works on Freud, and Nietzsche, and a number of autobiographical works concerning her life and the political culture of the twentieth century. These books include The Childhood of Art (1970; English trans. 1988), Nietzsche and Metaphor (1973; English trans. 1993), Camera Obscura (1973; English trans. 1998), Aberrations (1978), The Enigma of Woman (1980; English trans. 1985), Le respect des femmes (Kant et Rousseau) (1982), Smothered Words (1987; English trans. 1998), Socrates (1989; English trans. 1998), Séductions (1990) and Rue Ordener, Rue Labat (1994; English trans. 1996).

A LADY VANISHES

Towards the end of Rue Ordener, Rue Labat (1994), the terse and elegant autobiographical fiction she wrote just before terminating her life, Sarah Kofman inserts a brief episode relating her admiration for Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938). How or why Hitchcock's film appears in the fiction is uncanny. Rue Ordener, Rue Labat was the last book (of about twenty-five) the author had written prior to her suicide. The following year (1995) there appeared the posthumous L'Imposture de la beauté, a book of essays that the author had been crafting from six earlier articles or book chapters dating to 1990.

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Film, Theory and Philosophy
The Key Thinkers
 , pp. 190 - 200
Publisher: Acumen Publishing
Print publication year: 2009

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