Philippe Lacoue Labarthe: 3 books
Ending and Unending Agony
On Maurice Blanchot
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Published posthumously, Ending and Unending Agony is Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe’s only book entirely devoted to the French writer and essayist Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003). The place of Blanchot in Lacoue-Labarthe’s thought was both discreet and profound, involving difficult, agonizing questions...
Heidegger, Philosophy, and Politics
The Heidelberg Conference
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
In February 1988, philosophers Jacques Derrida, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe came together in Heidelberg before a large audience to discuss the philosophical and political implications of Martin Heidegger’s thought. This event took place in the very amphitheater in which, more...
Poetics of History
Rousseau and the Theater of Originary Mimesis
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
The book presents a new and surprising philosophical reading of Rousseau’s thinking on theater and mimesis.