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Sarah Kofman, a Philosophy of the Book

Author

Pagès, Anna

Other authors

Universitat Ramon Llull. Facultat de Psicologia, Ciències de l'Educació i de l'Esport Blanquerna

Publication date

2026-03



Abstract

La aproximación a Nietzsche, mal leído en su época, permite a Kofman tratar la lectura como un conjunto de sucesivas y creativas reapropiaciones del texto en el trauma de su pérdida irreversible. Al publicarse, el libro como objeto se separa de su autor, queda abandonado en manos de otros, lejos del amor ciego y posesivo que impedía al autor otras formas de elucidación. Siguiendo la pista de Nietzsche en su capítulo “Por qué escribo yo libros tan buenos” Kofman aborda la cuestión de la maternidad masculina y sus avatares filosóficos, dibujando una teoría de lo irreversible desde la escritura y la lectura como modalidades de relación aporética con el libro. Todo ello permite definir el trabajo de Sarah Kofman como una filosofía del libro.


The approach to Nietzsche, untimely philosopher, who did not find good readers in his time, allows Kofman to approach reading through different innovatives and creatives forms of reappropriation of the text and the trauma that its loss implies. The book as an object gets lost for its author when it is published, aban-doned in the hands of others, and at the same time removed from the blind and possessive love that preven-ted the author from other forms of elucidation. Following Nietzsche’s trail in his chapter “Why I write such good books” Kofman addresses the question of masculine motherhood and its philosophical vicissitudes, outlining a theory of the irreparable from writing and reading as different modalities of an aporetical relation with the book. These arguments lead us to an understanding of Sarah Kofman’s work as a philosophy of the book.

Document Type

Article

Document version

Published version

Language

Spanish

Subjects and keywords

Kofman, Sarah; Nietzsche, Friedrich; Filosofia

Pages

10

Publisher

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Published in

Anales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía, vol. 43 (2026)

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