"Keeping it in the Family": Sarah Kofman reading Nietzsche as a Jewish woman

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    Abstract

    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.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)41-64
    JournalHypatia
    Volume23
    Issue number1
    Publication statusPublished - 2008

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