Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-140) and index.
Introduction: the lifework of Sarah Kofman / Pleshette DeArmitt -- Art, affirmation and laughter -- The question of art : Sarah Kofman's aesthetics / Duncan Large -- Sarah Kofman's art of affirmation / Pleshette DeArmitt -- Sarah Kofman's wit / Ann Smock -- Philosophical fires : autobiography, femininity and Jewishness -- Fire walls : Sarah Kofman's pyrotechnics / Michael Naas -- Le mépris des anti-sémites : Kofman's Nietzsche and Nietzsche's Jews / Alan D. Schrift -- Playing with fire : Kofman and Freud on being Jewish, feminine, and homosexual / Tina Chanter -- Becoming : devenir-femme in the work of Sarah Kofman / Penelope Deutscher.