Background
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe was born on March 6, 1940, in Tours, France. He was a son of Jean and Jacqueline Lacoue-Labarthe.
(The first authoritative study of the emergence of the mod...)
The first authoritative study of the emergence of the modern concept of literature in German romanticism. The Literary Absolute is the first authoritative study of the emergence of the modern concept of literature in German romanticism. The authors trace this concept from the philosophical crisis bequeathed by Kant to his successors, to its development by the central figures of the Athenaeum group: the Schlegel brothers, Schelling, and Novalis. This study situates the Jena romantics’ "fragmentary" model of literature―a model of literature as the production of its own theory―in relation to the development of a post-Kantian conception of philosophy as the total and reflective auto-production of the thinking subject.
https://www.amazon.com/Literary-Absolute-Literature-Romanticism-Intersections/dp/0887066615/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Philippe+Lacoue-Labarthe+The+Literary+Absolute%3A+The+Theory+of+Literature+in+German+Romanticism&qid=1576674194&s=books&sr=1-1
1988
(This book is a close reading of Jacques Lacan’s seminal e...)
This book is a close reading of Jacques Lacan’s seminal essay, "The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud," selected for the particular light it casts on Lacan’s complex relation to linguistics, psychoanalysis, and philosophy. It clarifies the way Lacan renews or transforms the psychoanalytic field, through his diversion of Saussure’s theory of the sign, his radicalization of Freud’s fundamental concepts, and his subversion of dominant philosophical values.
https://www.amazon.com/Title-Letter-Contemporary-Continental-Philosophy/dp/0791409627/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Philippe+Lacoue-Labarthe+The+Title+of+the+Letter%3A+A+Reading+of+Lacan&qid=1576674158&s=books&sr=1-1
1992
(This is a pioneering attempt to rearticulate the relation...)
This is a pioneering attempt to rearticulate the relationship between music and the problems of mimesis, between presentation and re-presentaion. Four "scenes" comprise the book, all four of them responses to Wagner: two by French poets (Baudelaire and Mallarme), two by German philosophers (Heidegger and Adorno).
https://www.amazon.com/Musica-Ficta-Meridian-Crossing-Aesthetics/dp/0804723850/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Philippe+Lacoue-Labarthe+Musica+ficta%3A+Figures+of+Wagner&qid=1576675315&s=books&sr=1-1
1994
(An analysis of the historical position of Paul Celan's po...)
An analysis of the historical position of Paul Celan's poetry, this book addresses the question of a lyric language that would not be the expression of subjectivity. Lacoue-Labarthe defines the subject as the principle that founds, organizes, and secures both cognition and action, a figure not only of domination but of the extermination of everything other than itself.
https://www.amazon.com/Poetry-Experience-Meridian-Crossing-Aesthetics/dp/0804734275/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Philippe+Lacoue-Labarthe+Poetry+as+Experience&qid=1576675164&s=books&sr=1-1
1999
(This volume collects and translates Philippe Lacoue-Labar...)
This volume collects and translates Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe’s studies of Heidegger, written and revised between 1990 and 2002. All deal with Heidegger’s relation to politics, specifically through Heidegger’s interpretations of the poetry of Hölderlin. Lacoue-Labarthe argues that it is through Hölderlin that Heidegger expresses most explicitly his ideas on politics, his nationalism, and the importance of myth in his thinking, all of which point to substantial affinities with National Socialism.
https://www.amazon.com/Heidegger-Politics-Poetry-Philippe-Lacoue-Labarthe/dp/0252031539/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Philippe+Lacoue-Labarthe+Heidegger+and+the+Politics+of+Poetry&qid=1576675366&s=books&sr=1-1
2007
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Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe was born on March 6, 1940, in Tours, France. He was a son of Jean and Jacqueline Lacoue-Labarthe.
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe started his career as a teacher of Philosophy at Lycée Montaigne in 1963. He held this post until 1967 and then became an assistant professor at Marc Bloch University. In 1971, Lacoue-Labarthe was appointed a master assistant professor of Philosophy and held this post until his death. He also worked as a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University.
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe worked together with Jean-Luc Nancy. They wrote many articles and books and also organized a conference at Cerisy-la-Salle centered around Derrida's 1968 paper. In 1980, Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy founded the Centre for Philosophical Research on the Political that operated for four years. Lacoue-Labarthe was also involved in theatrical productions. He translated Hölderlin's version of Antigone, and collaborated with Michel Deutsch to stage the work at the Théâtre national de Strasbourg in 1978.
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe published his first book Le Titre de la lettre: une lecture de Lacan (The Title of the Letter: A Reading of Lacan) in 1973. Later he wrote such books as The Literary Absolute: The Theory of Literature in German Romanticism, The Subject Of Philosophy, Poetry as Experience and Heidegger and the Politics of Poetry. Many of his books were translated into English.
(This book is a close reading of Jacques Lacan’s seminal e...)
1992(An analysis of the historical position of Paul Celan's po...)
1999(This is a pioneering attempt to rearticulate the relation...)
1994(This volume collects and translates Philippe Lacoue-Labar...)
2007(The first authoritative study of the emergence of the mod...)
1988Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe was interested in the political dimensions of Heidegger's thought and wrote a book about Celan and Heidegger. He takes on the question of whether or not German philosopher Martin Heidegger's entire body of work is tainted with the stain of Nazism because he joined the Nazi Party during Adolf Hitler's regime. Lacoue-Labarthe said that Heidegger's greatest failure was not his involvement in the National Socialist movement but his "silence on the extermination" and his refusal to engage in a thorough deconstruction of Nazism.
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe was a member of the Collège international de philosophie.
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe married Francine Lange on December 21, 1963. The marriage produced two children.