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SELECTED WRITINGS - MERIDIAN Crossing Aesthetics Werner Hamacher Editor Edited by Thomas Albrecht, with Georgia Albert and Elizabeth Rottenberg Introduction by Jacques Derrida Stanford University Press Stanford California 2007 SELECTED WRITINGS Sarah Kofinan Stanford University Press Stanford, California © 2007 by the Board ofTruscees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. No part of chis book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Stanford University Press. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kofman, Sarah. [Selections. English. 2007] Selected writings / Sarah Kofman ; edited by Thomas Albrecht, with Georgia Albert and Elizabeth Rottenberg ; introduction by Jacques Derrida. p. cm.-(Meridian) Includes bibliographical references (p. ). ISBN 978-0-8047-3296-3 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8047-3297-o (pbk. : alk. paper) r. Philosophy, French-20th century I. Albrecht, Thomas, 1965- II. Albert, Georgia. III. Rottenberg, Elizabeth, 1969- IV. Tide. B2430.K642E6 2007 194-dc22 2007025702 Typeset by Westchester Book Group in ro.9/r3 Adobe Garamond Contents Acknowledgments IX Editor's Preface XI Thomas Albrecht Introduction Jacques Derrida PART I: READING (WITH) FREUD § I The Double Reading § 2 The Impossible Profession § 3 C::a cloche 71 PART 2: NIETZSCHE AND THE SCENE OF PHILOSOPHY § 4 The Evil Eye 99 § 5 Scorning Jews: Nietzsche, the Jews, Anti-Semitism 123 PART 3: WITH RESPECT TO WOMAN § 6 From The Enigma of Woman: Woman in Freud's Writings 159 VIII Contents § 7 The Economy of Respect: Kant and Respect for Women PART 4: THE TRUTH IN PAINTING § 8 The Melancholy of Art 205 § 9 The Resemblance of Portraits: Imitation According to Diderot 218 §10 Conjuring Death: Remarks on The Anatomy Lesson ofD octor Nicolas Tulp (1632) 237 PART 5: JUDAISM AND ANTI-SEMITISM/ AUTOBIOGRAPHY § II Shoah (or Dis-grace) 245 § 12 Autobiographical Writings 247 Damned Food 247 Tomb for a Proper Name 248 Post-scriptum-1992 249 "My Life" and Psychoanalysis 250 Nightmare: At the Margins of Medieval Studies 251 Notes 255 Contributors 297 Acknowledgments The editors would like to thank Chris Lewis and Philip Leider, for the inspired idea of putting together an anthology of Sarah Kofman's writings and for their contributions to the early stages of this project; Werner Hamacher, editor of the Meridian Series at Stanford University Press; Eliz abeth Constable; all the translators who prepared the translations espe cially commissioned for this volume (Jennifer Bajorek, Pascale-Anne Brault, Ben Elwood, Patience Moll, Michael Naas, and Ann Smock), for their attentive and thoughtful responses to Kofman's prose and for their patience and understanding during the years it took to compile this collec tion; Jacques Derrida, for the gift of his untitled eulogy for Sarah Kofman, which serves as the introduction; Alexandre Kyritsos, Sarah Kofman's companion and literary executor, for his stated enthusiasm about this proj ect and for permissions; Megan Holt, M. J. Severson, and Megan M. Hais sig at Tulane University, for their work as research assistants; Santhosh Daniel, former editorial assistant at Stanford University Press, for all his help and good humor; production editors Mariana Raykov at Stanford University Press and Deborah Masi; Julie Palmer-Hoffman, for her careful and conscientious copy editing; Emily-Jane Cohen, Assistant Editor at Stanford University Press; and Norris Pope, Director of Scholarly Publish ing at Stanford University Press, for helping to bring this project, as Sarah Kofman might have said, to term. Finally and foremost, we thank Helen Tartar, editor during the formative stages of the project, for her guidance and her often expressed belief in the timeliness and relevance of this book. "The Impossible Profession," "~a cloche," "The Evil Eye," "Scorning Jews," "The Melancholy of Art," and "The Resemblance of Portraits" are zx X Acknowledgments translated from the original French and published by permission of Edi tions Galilee. "The Double Reading," from The Childhood of Art (Copyright © 1988 by Columbia University Press), is reprinted with the permission of the publisher. The excerpt from The Enigma of Woman: Woman in Freud's Writings (translated by Catherine Porter, translation copyright© 1985 by Cornell University) is used by permission of the pub lisher, Cornell University Press. "The Economy of Respect: Kant and Re spect for Women," originally from Le respect des femmes (Paris: Galilee, 1982), is reprinted from the English translation by permission of Social Research from Social Research 49.2 (1982): 383-404. In Chapter 12, the texts entitled "Damned Food," "Tomb for a Proper Name," and "Night mare: At the Margins of Medieval Studies" originally appeared in Sub Stance 49 (Copyright © 1986) and are reprinted by permission of The University of Wisconsin Press. All previously published translations have been slightly modified to conform to the conventions of style and usage prescribed by Stanford University Press. "Conjuring Death," "Shoah (or Dis-grace)," and, in Chapter !2, the texts entitled "Post-scriptum-1992" and " 'My Life' and Psychoanalysis" are translated and published by per mission of Alexandre Kyritsos. The volume introduction is translated and published by permission of Jacques Derrida.

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