Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (/ləˈkuː ləˈbɑːrt/ lə-KOO lə-BART, French: [laku labaʁt]; 6 March 1940 – 28 January 2007) was a French philosopher. He was also a literary critic and translator. Lacoue-Labarthe published several influential works with his friend Jean-Luc Nancy.
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe | |
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| Born | 6 March 1940 Tours, France |
| Died | 28 January 2007 (aged 66) Paris, France |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Continental philosophy Deconstruction |
| Institutions | University of Strasbourg |
Main interests | Literary criticism Tragedy |
Notable ideas | The literary Absolute (L'Absolu littéraire) |
Lacoue-Labarthe was influenced by and wrote extensively on Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, German Romanticism, Paul Celan, and Gérard Granel. He also translated works by Heidegger, Celan, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Hölderlin, and Walter Benjamin into French.
Lacoue-Labarthe was a member and president of the Collège international de philosophie.
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