Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

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

Professional milestones

Lacoue-Labarthe received his docteur d'état in 1987 with a jury led by Gérard Granel and including Derrida and Jean-François Lyotard. The monograph submitted for that degree was La fiction du politique (English translation, Heidegger, Art, Politics), a study of Heidegger's long-abiding allegiances to his vision of National Socialism. It followed shortly after a book on Celan and Heidegger, Poetry as Experience. Both of these works immediately predate the explosion of interest in the political dimensions of Heidegger's thought and his personal responsibility as Rector of the University of Freiburg under the Nazi regime, an interest generated by Victor Farías's book that appeared in 1987. Scholars such as Derrida (in "Deconciliation," Shibboleth, and Of Spirit) , Lyotard (in Heidegger and "the jews"), and Pierre Joris (see http://www.anti-rev.org/textes/Joris89a/index.html) have strongly commended these works as authoritative.

Related Topics:
Jean-François Lyotard - National Socialism - Victor Farías - Pierre Joris

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~