Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe , born the March 6th 1940 with Tours and dead the January 28th 2007 with Paris is a critical , Philosophe, French writer.

Influences and associations

Lacoue-Labarthe was influenced by, and wrote enormously on, Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, the German Romantisme, Paul Celan, Mallarmé and the Déconstruction. He was also a French translator of Heidegger, Celan, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Hölderlin and Walter Benjamin.

In 1980 Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy organize a conference on Derrida in Cerisy-The-Room, baptized according to the article the ends of the man of Derrida (1968). Following this conference and at the request of Derrida, they found the Center Seeks Philosophical on the Policy in November 1980. This center remained active during four years, providing alternative ways of investigation to the empirical approach of political sciences. Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy were colleagues at the university Marc Bloch of Strasbourg. Lacoue-Labarthe was also member and president of the international Collège of philosophy.

Ideas

On the basis of the German thematisation of the question of the imitation while turning over to the design aristotelician of the Mimesis ( the imitation of modern the , Poetic of the history ) Lacoue-Labarthe attempts to follow the Déconstruction of the tragic version of the history.

“archi-Fascism” of Heidegger

Lacoue-Labarte and Derrida have both abundantly commented on the corpus heideggérien, and identified national-socialisme idiosyncrasic at Heidegger, which persisted until the end. But it is perhaps more important to consider than Lacoue-Labarthe and Derrida, after Celan (with a least degree), also considered Heidegger capable of a major criticism of the Nazism and horrors which it brought. They do not consider that the greatest error of Heidegger is its participation in the movement national-Socialist, but according to the words of Lacoue-Labarthe its “silence on the extermination”, and its refusal to engage a complete déconstruction of the Nazism - beyond some of its notable objections on orthodoxies of the party. Lacoue-Labarthe also adds to the errors of Heidegger, its passages on Nietzsche, Hölderlin and Wagner, whose works were likely of an appropriation by the Nazism. It is reasonable to think that Lacoue-Labarthe and Derrida regard Heidegger as able to confront itself with the Nazism, considered in its most extreme tendencies, and undertook such a work to them-even, on the basis of this. One can thus mention the questioning of Derrida on a comment (between brackets) of Lacoue-Labarthe: “in any event, Heidegger never avoids anything”

Engagements

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe had engaged in many political causes in particular against Front National and for the regularization of without-papers.

He taught during more than 30 years to the Université Marc-Bloch of Strasbourg.

On Lacoue-Labarthe

• Jacques Derrida, “Desistance” in Psychè

Works

• the Title of the letter: a reading of Lacan , with Jean-Luc Nancy, 1973 ISBN 2718600020

• literary Absolute: theory of the literature of the German romanticism , with Jean-Luc Nancy, 1978, ISBN 2020049368
• Portrait of the artist, in general , 1979 ISBN 2267001624
• the Subject of philosophy: Typographies 1 , 1979, ISBN 2082260119
• Ends of the man starting from the work of Jacques Derrida: conference of Cerisy, July 23rd - August 2nd, 1980 , with Jean-Luc Nancy, 1981, ISBN 2718602074
• Withdrawal of the artist in two people , 1985, ISBN 2904546049
• the Imitation of the modern ones: Typographies 2 , 1985, ISBN 2082260119
• Poetry like experiment , 1986 ISBN 2267004380
• Fiction of the policy: Heidegger, art and the policy , 1988 (revised), ISBN 226700531X
• Michel Deutsch, Sit venia verbo , 1988, ISBN 2267005654
• Musica ficta: figures of Wagner , 1991, ISBN 2267008637
• the myth Nazi , with Jean-Luc Nancy, 1991 ISBN 287678078X
• Pasolini, an improvisation: from a holiness , 1995 ISBN 2841030377
• Retreating the Political , with Jean-Luc Nancy, ED. Simon Sparks, 1997 ISBN 0415151635
• Métaphrasis; follow-up of the theater of Hölderlin , 1998, ISBN 213049336X
• Sentence , 2000, Poetic ISBN 2267015617
• of the history , 2002, ISBN 2718605782
• Heidegger: the policy of the poem , 2002 ISBN 2718605936

Bonds

• International symposium " Mimetic Déconstruction - Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe" , which took place January 27th and 28th 2006 in Sorbonne
• a film carried out in 2004, The Ister, is based on the courses of Heidegger of 1942 on Friedrich Hölderlin, and comprises interviews of Jean-Luc Nancy, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Bernard Stiegler, and Hans-Jürgen Syberberg. The official site
• a box entirely devoted to Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe published by the editions Except eye in 2006 (http://www.hors-oeil.com).
• This box includes/understands a DVD gathering two films: " Talks of the Saint-Pierre" island; with the writer essay writer Jean-Christophe Bailly and " Andenken".
• It comprises also a facsimile of a manuscript of Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe.
• " X" monograms; (an exchange of letters with Nancy)
• Emission of France Culture devoted to Lacoue-Labarthe
• Hölderlin Discussion with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
• Another maintenance, " De Hölderlin with Marx: myth, initiation, tragédie" appeared in the review Labyrinthe. Workshop interdisciplinaire in 2005.