Authors: Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Andrea Tarnowski
ISBN-13: 9780804734271, ISBN-10: 0804734275
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Date Published: January 1999
Edition: New Edition
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe—philosopher, literary critic, and translator—is one of the leading intellectuals in France. He teaches philosophy and aesthetics at the University of Strasbourg. Among his works translated into English is Typography: Mimesis, Philosophy, Politics (Stanford paperback edition, 1998).
An analysis of the historical position of Paul Celan’s poetry, this book addresses the question of a lyric language that would not be the expression of subjectivity. Lacoue-Labarthe defines the subject as the principle that founds, organizes, and secures both cognition and action, a figure not only of domination but of the extermination of everything other than itself.
A Note on Citation | ||
Pt. I | Two Poems | 1 |
Pt. II | Remembering Dates | 39 |
1 | Catastrophe | 41 |
2 | Prayer | 71 |
3 | Sublime | 87 |
4 | Hagiography | 92 |
5 | The Power of Naming | 95 |
6 | Pain | 98 |
7 | Ecstasy | 102 |
8 | Vertigo | 104 |
9 | Blindness | 106 |
10 | Lied | 107 |
11 | Sky | 111 |
12 | The Unforgivable | 122 |
Notes | 127 | |
Works Cited | 141 |