Sarah Kofman inscribes the voice of the child witness and survivor within the genealogy of philosophy.

This volume brings together two essays and interviews that reveal both the vital cost and the determination to rescue life and the human species from the ruins of "humanism," without renouncing it altogether.
Suffocated Words, dedicated to her father, reads Blanchot and Antelme alongside one another: "My father died at Auschwitz. How can I not say so? And how can I say it?"
How to Pull Through? is "rooted" in her persecuted childhood and raises the question of aporia, as understood by Plato.