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| In ''Poetry as Experience'' Lacoue-Labarthe argued that, even though Celan's poetry was deeply informed by Heidegger's philosophy, Celan was long aware of Heidegger's association with the Nazi party and therefore fundamentally circumspect toward the man and transformative in his reception of his work. Celan was nonetheless willing to meet Heidegger. Heidegger was a professed admirer of Celan's writing, although he never gave to Celan's poetry the philosophical attention he devoted to ] or ]. "]," however, seems to hold out the unrealized possibility of a profound rapprochement between their work. In this respect Heidegger's work was perhaps redeemable for Celan, even if that redemption was never transacted between the two men. | In ''Poetry as Experience'' Lacoue-Labarthe argued that, even though Celan's poetry was deeply informed by Heidegger's philosophy, Celan was long aware of Heidegger's association with the Nazi party and therefore fundamentally circumspect toward the man and transformative in his reception of his work. Celan was nonetheless willing to meet Heidegger. Heidegger was a professed admirer of Celan's writing, although he never gave to Celan's poetry the philosophical attention he devoted to ] or ]. "]," however, seems to hold out the unrealized possibility of a profound rapprochement between their work. In this respect Heidegger's work was perhaps redeemable for Celan, even if that redemption was never transacted between the two men. | ||
| Lacoue-Labarthe and Derrida have both commented extensively on Heidegger's corpus, and both have identified an idiosyncratically Heideggerian National Socialism that persisted until the end |
Lacoue-Labarthe and Derrida have both commented extensively on Heidegger's corpus, and both have identified an idiosyncratically Heideggerian National Socialism that persisted until the end. Lacoue-Labarthe considered 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. Both Lacoue-Labarthe and Derrida regarded Heidegger's thought as offering pathways to a philosophical confrontation with Nazism, pathways which Heidegger failed to follow, but which Lacoue-Labarthe did attempt to pursue. | ||
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Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (March 6, 1940, Tours – January 27 2007, Paris) was a French philosopher, literary critic, and translator.
Influences and associations
Lacoue-Labarthe was influenced by and wrote extensively on Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, German Romanticism, Paul Celan, and deconstruction. He also translated works by Heidegger, Celan, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Hölderlin, and Walter Benjamin into French. Lacoue-Labarthe wrote several books and articles in collaboration with Jean-Luc Nancy, a colleague at the Université Marc Bloch in Strasbourg. In 1980 Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy organized a conference at Cerisy-la-Salle, centered around Derrida's 1968 paper Les fins de l'homme. Following this conference and at Derrida's request, in November 1980 Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy founded the Centre de Recherches Philosophiques sur la Politique (Centre for Philosophical Research on the Political). The Centre operated for four years, pursuing philosophical rather than empirical approaches to political questions. Lacoue-Labarthe was also a member and president of the Collège international de philosophie.
Professional milestones
Lacoue-Labarthe received his doctorat d'état in 1987 with a jury led by Gérard Granel and including Derrida, George Steiner and Jean-François Lyotard. The monograph submitted for that degree was La fiction du politique (English translation, Heidegger, Art, and Politics), a study of Heidegger's relation to National Socialism. Prior to La fiction du politique Lacoue-Labarthe had already published a book on Celan and Heidegger entitled La poésie comme expérience (Poetry as Experience). Both of these works predate the explosion of interest in the political dimensions of Heidegger's thought which followed the publication of a book by Victor Farías. Scholars such as Derrida (in "Deconciliation," Shibboleth, and Of Spirit), Jean-François Lyotard (in Heidegger and "the jews"), and Pierre Joris (see ) commended these works.
On Heidegger and Celan
In Poetry as Experience Lacoue-Labarthe argued that, even though Celan's poetry was deeply informed by Heidegger's philosophy, Celan was long aware of Heidegger's association with the Nazi party and therefore fundamentally circumspect toward the man and transformative in his reception of his work. Celan was nonetheless willing to meet Heidegger. Heidegger was a professed admirer of Celan's writing, although he never gave to Celan's poetry the philosophical attention he devoted to Hölderlin's or Trakl's. "Todtnauberg," however, seems to hold out the unrealized possibility of a profound rapprochement between their work. In this respect Heidegger's work was perhaps redeemable for Celan, even if that redemption was never transacted between the two men.
Lacoue-Labarthe and Derrida have both commented extensively on Heidegger's corpus, and both have identified an idiosyncratically Heideggerian National Socialism that persisted until the end. Lacoue-Labarthe considered 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. Both Lacoue-Labarthe and Derrida regarded Heidegger's thought as offering pathways to a philosophical confrontation with Nazism, pathways which Heidegger failed to follow, but which Lacoue-Labarthe did attempt to pursue.
Bibliography
Primary literature
| French | English | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le Titre de la lettre: une lecture de Lacan | 1973 | ISBN 2-7186-0002-0 | w/ Jean-Luc Nancy | The Title of the Letter: A Reading of Lacan | 1992 | ISBN 0-7914-0962-7 | trans. François Raffoul and David Pettigrew |
| L'Absolu littéraire: théorie de la littérature du romantisme allemand | 1978 | ISBN 2-02-004936-8 | w/ Jean-Luc Nancy | The Literary Absolute: The Theory of Literature in German Romanticism | 1988 | ISBN 0-88706-661-5 | trans. Philip Barnard and Cheryl Lester |
| Portrait de l'artiste, en général | 1979 | ISBN 2-267-00162-4 | |||||
| Le Sujet de la philosophie: Typographies 1 | 1979 | ISBN 2-08-226011-9 | The Subject of Philosophy | 1993 | ISBN 0-8166-1698-1 | trans. Thomas Trezise et al* | |
| Les Fins de l'homme à partir du travail de Jacques Derrida: colloque de Cerisy, 23 juillet-2 août 1980 (ed.) | 1981 | ISBN 2-7186-0207-4 | w/ Jean-Luc Nancy | see Retreating the Political below for translations of their contributions | |||
| Retrait de l’artiste en deux personnes | 1985 | ISBN 2-904546-04-9 | |||||
| L'Imitation des modernes: Typographies 2 | 1986 | ISBN 2-08-226011-9 | Typography: Mimesis, Philosophy, Politics | 1989 (Harvard), 1998 (Stanford) | ISBN 0-8047-3282-5 | ed. Christopher Fynsk* | |
| La Poésie comme expérience | 1986 | ISBN 2-267-00438-0 | Poetry as Experience | 1999 | ISBN 0-8047-3427-5 | trans. Andrea Tarnowski | |
| La Fiction du politique: Heidegger, l'art et la politique | 1988, revised | ISBN 2-267-00531-X | Heidegger, Art, and Politics: the Fiction of the Political | 1990 | ISBN 0-631-17155-X | trans. Chris Turner | |
| Sit venia verbo | 1988 | ISBN 2-267-00565-4 | w/ Michel Deutsch | ||||
| Musica ficta: figures de Wagner | 1991 | ISBN 2-267-00863-7 | Musica ficta: Figures of Wagner | 1994 | ISBN 0-8047-2385-0 | trans. Felicia McCarren | |
| Le mythe nazi | 1991 | ISBN 2-87678-078-X | w/ Jean-Luc Nancy | ||||
| Pasolini, une improvisation : d’une sainteté | 1995 | ISBN 2-84103-037-7 | |||||
| Retreating the Political | 1997 | ISBN 0-415-15163-5 | w/ Jean-Luc Nancy, ed. Simon Sparks** | ||||
| Métaphrasis; suivi de Le théâtre de Hölderlin | 1998 | ISBN 2-13-049336-X | |||||
| Phrase | 2000 | ISBN 2-267-01561-7 | |||||
| Poétique de l'histoire | 2002 | ISBN 2-7186-0578-2 | |||||
| Heidegger: la politique du poème | 2002 | ISBN 2-7186-0593-6 | Heidegger and the Politics of Poetry | 2007 | ISBN 0-2520-3153-9 | trans. Jeff Fort | |
| Agonie terminée, agonie interminable | 2004 | ISBN 2-7186-0626-6 | |||||
* contents of this book do not correspond exactly to those of the book it otherwise translates
** collects essays from 1979, 1981, and 1983 and others not previously published
Secondary literature
- Jacques Derrida, "Désistance," in Psychè (English translation in Lacoue-Labarthe, Typography: Mimesis, Philosophy, Politics).
- Pierre Joris, Heidegger, France, Politics, The University.
- John Martis, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe: Representation and the Loss of the Subject (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005).
- Avital Ronell, "The Differends of Man," in Finitude's Score.
See also
External links
- Oedipus as Figure, Radical Philosophy.
- The Ister (2004) is a film based on a 1942 lecture course by Martin Heidegger about Friedrich Hölderlin (Hölderlin's Hymn "The Ister"). It features extensive interviews with Lacoue-Labarthe, Jean-Luc Nancy, Bernard Stiegler, and Hans-Jürgen Syberberg. * Official site.
- Brief commemoration by the makers of The Ister.
- Commemoration by Christopher Fynsk (dated January 31, 2007).
- Template:Fr icon Obituary, Libération.
- Template:Fr icon Obituary, by Jean-Luc Nancy, also from Libération.
- Template:Fr icon Obituary, Le Monde, by Jacob Rogozinski.
- Template:Fr icon A 2006 international conference, Deconstructing Mimesis - Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, was held at the Sorbonne in Paris : Overview Complete audio recordings (including Lacoue-Labarthe's and Nancy's lectures).
- Template:Fr icon Monogrammes X (an exchange of letters with Nancy).
- Template:Fr icon De Hölderlin à Marx: mythe, initiation, tragédie, an interview.
- Template:Fr icon Radio France coverage.