contemporary typographies intersections international

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Typography: Mimesis, Philosophy, Politics (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

Stanford University Press, 1998

Philosopher, literary critic, translator (of Nietzsche and Benjamin), Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe is one of the leading intellectual figures in France. This volume of six essays deals with the relation between philosophy and aesthetics, particularly the role of mimesis in a metaphysics of representation. Comment [1997] “Typography is a book whose importance has not diminished since its first publication in French in 1979. On the ...

Umbr(a): The Dark God
Joan Copjec; Serge André; Lorenzo Chiesa; Marc de Kesel; Dominiek Hoens; Christian Jambet; Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe; Tracy McNulty; Kenneth Reinhard; Alberto Toscano

Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture, 2005

A psychoanalytic journal dedicated to exploring the issue of religion. Published by SUNY/Buffalo's Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture. Contributors include Serge André, Lorenzo Chiesa, Marc de Kesel, Dominiek Hoens, Christian Jambet, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Tracy McNulty, Kenneth Reinhard, and Alberto Toscano.

Heidegger and the Politics of Poetry
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

University of Illinois Press, 2007

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 Hölderlin. Lacoue-Labarthe argues that it is through Hölderlin that Heidegger expresses most explicitly his ideas on politics, his nationalism, and the importance of myth in his thinking, ...

The Literary Absolute: The Theory of Literature in German Romanticism (Suny Series : Intersections : ...
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Jean-Luc Nancy

State University of New York Press, 1988

The Title of the Letter: A Reading of Lacan (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)
Jean-Luc Nancy, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

State University of New York Press, 1992

La fiction du politique: Heidegger, l'art et la politique (Collection "Detroits")
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

C. Bourgois, 1987

Metaphrasis.
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

Diaphanes Verlag, 2001

Musica Ficta: (Figures of Wagner) (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

Stanford University Press, 1995

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 (Baudelaire and Mallarmé), two by German philosophers (Heidegger and Adorno).

Poetry as Experience (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

Stanford University Press, 1999

Lacoue-Labarthe’s Poetry as Experience addresses the question of a lyric language that would not be the expression of subjectivity. In his analysis of the historical position of Paul Celan’s poetry, Lacoue-Labarthe defines the subject as the principle that founds, organizes, and secures both cognition and action—a principle that turned, most violently during the twentieth century, into a figure not only of domination but of ...