Phrase
(October 2018)
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe - Author Leslie Hill - Translator
The first complete English translation of Lacoue-Labarthe’s most innovative and original work, exploring the very origins of experience, language, desire, and mortality.
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940–2007) is widely acknowledged in his native France and in the English-speaking world as one of the most important philosophers of his generation and an exceptionally rigorous reader of Heidegger, Hölderlin, Benjamin...(Read More)
The Title of the Letter
(April 1992)
A Reading of Lacan Jean-Luc Nancy - Author Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe - Author François Raffoul - Translator David Pettigrew - Translator
"I advise you to read a book called The Title of the Letter. It is with the greatest satisfaction that I have read it. I could not encourage its distribution enough. I can say, in a way, if it is a question of reading, that I have never been read so well..." --Jacques Lacan
This bookis a close reading of Jacques Lacan's seminal essay, "The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud, " selected for t...(Read More)
The Literary Absolute
(March 1988)
The Theory of Literature in German Romanticism Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe - Author Jean-Luc Nancy - Author Philip Barnard - Translator Cheryl Lester - Translator
"The authors have effectively situated romanticism within its philosophical context in a brilliant way." -- Mark C. Taylor, Williams College
The Literary Absolute is the first authoritative study of the emergence of the modern concept of literature in German romanticism. The authors trace this concept from the philosophical crisis bequeathed by Kant to his successors, to its development by the central figures of the Athenaeum g...(Read More)
