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Sarah Kofman est une philosophe et essayiste française, née à Paris le 14 septembre 1934 et morte le 15 octobre 1994 dans la même ville.

Spécialiste de Platon, de Friedrich Nietzsche et de Sigmund Freud, elle est également l'auteure de nombreux essais d'esthétique et d'écrits autobiographiques originaux.

Elle était la fille du rabbin hassidique Bereck Kofman, ayant émigré avec sa femme depuis la Pologne à Paris dans l'entre-deux guerre, raflé chez lui le 16 juillet 1942 par la police française, déporté et assassiné à Auschwitz. Wikipedia  

✵ 14. septembre 1934 – 15. octobre 1994
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“Things are never beautiful by themselves but appear so to anyone who projects on to them his superabundance of life. But just as unconscious activity is unaware of itself as such, so man ‘forgets himself’ as the cause of these ‘beauties’ and imagines that the world itself is laden with them.”

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Source: Nietzsche et la métaphore (1972), p. 29

“A ‘good’ style is one which can communicate through signs a certain inner state symptomatic of a certain taste (such a communication presupposing a listener or reader with the same taste).”

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Source: Nietzsche et la métaphore (1972), p. 2

“The philosopher does not just ‘play’ with metaphors: his play is of a ‘formidable seriousness’, for it is designed to oppose modernity’s hatred for art, to obliterate precisely the opposition between play and seriousness, dream and reality.”

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Source: Nietzsche et la métaphore (1972), p. 18

“Dialectics and reflection play the same role for the philosopher as does verse for the poet.”

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Source: Nietzsche et la métaphore (1972), p. 13

“… the ‘pathos of distance’ which separates two types of life that have always already been in existence: the one flourishing and superabundant, projecting its own excess into things and embellishing them; the other degenerate, able only to impoverish the world by reducing it to the narrow and ugly measure of the concept, in order to spite itself and out of ressentiment toward life.”

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Source: Nietzsche et la métaphore (1972), p. 20

“The new philosopher does not put metaphor to rhetorical use but subordinates it … to the strategic objective of using non-stereotyped metaphors in order to unmask the metaphors which constitute every concept.”

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Source: Nietzsche et la métaphore (1972), p. 18