Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
This is the first full-length book in English on the noted French philosopher Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. Martis introduces the range of Lacoue-Labarthe's thinking, demonstrating the systematic nature of his philosophical project. Focusing in partic...
Heidegger and the Politics of Poetry
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 HÖlde...
Ending and Unending Agony
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 pro...
Subject of Philosophy
"The Subject of Philosophy" presents a sustained examination of the relation between literature and philosophy with special emphasis on the problem of the subject and of representation. Spanning the history of philosophy from Plato and A...
Musica Ficta
This is a pioneering attempt to rearticulate the relationship between music and the problem of mimesis, of presentation and re-presentation. Four "scenes" compose this book, all four of them responses to Wagner: two by French poets (Baud...
Retreating the Political
This collection of essays presents, for the first time in English, some of the key essays on the political by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy. Including several unpublished essays, Retreating the Political offers some highly original p...
Music, Philosophy and Gender in Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe, Badiou
Music, Philosophy and Gender in Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe, Badiou
Music, Philosophy and Gender in Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe, Badiou
Music, Philosophy and Gender in Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe, Badiou
Literary Absolute
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 author...
Title of the Letter
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, a...
Aesthetic Paths of Philosophy
This book examines the ways that Heidegger, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Nancy adopt and reconfigure the Kantian understanding of "aesthetic presentation." In Kant, "aesthetic presentation" is understood in a technical sense as a speci...
Subjects and Simulations
Subjects and Simulations presents essays focused on suffering and sublimity, representation and subjectivity, and the relation of truth and appearance in the twenty-first century. Inspired by the work of Jean Baudrillard, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe ...