Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe 1940 – 2007
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940 – 2007) was a French philosopher of the Contemporary era, associated with Continental Philosophy and Post-Structuralism.
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe was a French philosopher, literary theorist, and translator, a long-time colleague of Jean-Luc Nancy at the University of Strasbourg, and a major interpreter of Heidegger, Holderlin, and German Romanticism. His Typography and The Subject of Philosophy explored the rhetorical and theatrical dimension of philosophy through a sustained reading of mimesis from Plato to Heidegger. In Heidegger, Art and Politics he confronted the entanglement of Heidegger's thought with National Socialism, arguing that the question of art and the question of politics could not be separated in twentieth-century thinking.
Key facts
- Nationality
- French
- Era
- Contemporary
- Movements
- Continental Philosophy, Post-Structuralism
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe:
“Philosophy has always presented itself in the costume of a tragedy.”
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Attributed to Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe:
“Mimesis is not a representation added to being; it is the very mode in which beings become themselves.”
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Attributed to Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe:
“National aestheticism is the matrix in which the Nazi catastrophe became thinkable.”
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Attributed to Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe:
“To read Holderlin is to read the experience of the loss of the gods.”
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Attributed to Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe:
“Every philosophy is haunted by a theatre that it tries in vain to silence.”
Frequently asked about Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
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- Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe was born in 1940 and died in 2007.
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- Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe was a French philosopher of the Contemporary era.
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- Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe was associated with Continental Philosophy and Post-Structuralism.
- What was Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe known for?
- Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe was a French philosopher, literary theorist, and translator, a long-time colleague of Jean-Luc Nancy at the University of Strasbourg, and a major interpreter of Heidegger, Holderlin, and German Romanticism.
- How many quotes are attributed to Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe?
- There are 5 attributed quotations from Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe in the 1001Philosophers collection, organized by topic.