Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (born 1940) is a contemporary French philosopher, literary critic, and translator.

Influences and associations

Lacoue-Labarthe is influenced by and has written extensively on Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, German Romanticism, Paul Celan, and deconstruction. He is also a French translator of Heidegger, Celan, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Hölderlin, and Walter Benjamin. In 1980 Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy co-organised a Cerisy-la-Salle conference on Derrida, named after Derrida's 1968 paper Les fins de l'homme. Following on from discussion at this conference and at Derrida's request, they then founded the Centre of Philosophical Research on the Political in November 1980. This Centre would remain active for four years, providing alternative lines of enquiry to the empirical approach of political sciences. Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy are colleagues at the Université Marc Bloch in Strasbourg, France. Lacoue-Labarthe is also a member of the International College of Philosophy.

Related Topics:
Martin Heidegger - Jacques Derrida - Jacques Lacan - German Romanticism - Paul Celan - Deconstruction - Translator - Friedrich Nietzsche - Friedrich Hölderlin - Walter Benjamin - Jean-Luc Nancy - Centre of Philosophical Research on the Political - Strasbourg - International College of Philosophy

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