Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
Subtitle: timely Meditations
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781909662421
Subjects: Philosophers, france
Description: Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940-2007) was a professor of philosophy, and also a poet, a translator and a playwright. His life and work were dedicated to the philosophical and political movements of the post-1968 era, from his communal life together with Jean-Luc Nancy to his collaborations with Jacques Derrida. These movements also carried him towards disparate modes of writing such as poetry and theatre. The tension between Lacoue-Labarthe's timely and untimely meditations governs the approach in this study, the first to attempt an accessible and comprehensive account of this forceful thinker.