{"id":352,"date":"2007-01-30T06:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=352"},"modified":"2007-01-30T06:35:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T14:35:00","slug":"more-on-lacoue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/more-on-lacoue\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Lacoue"},"content":{"rendered":"
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe was more than “just” a philosopher: he was someone who came to philosophy through literature and was one of the finest readers of literary texts, vide<\/span> his book on Paul Celan, Poetry as Experience<\/span><\/a>. He wrote poetry; he co-authered a play with Michel Deutsch, Sit venia verbo<\/span>, centered on the tragi-comic figure of Heidegger in the Germany of 1945. He was an immense theater person & a major translator \u2014 we owe him excellent French translations of Holderlin’s German versions of Sophocles’ Oedipus<\/span> & Antigone<\/span>. This morning Lib\u00e9ration published an obit, of which you can read the opening paragraphs below and the whole here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Lacoue-Labarthe, la mort platonique<\/div>\n
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Philosophe, germaniste et homme de th\u00e9\u00e2tre, il s’est \u00e9teint \u00e0 67 ans. <\/div>\n
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Par Jean-Baptiste MARONGIU<\/div>\n
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QUOTIDIEN : mardi 30 janvier 2007<\/div>\n
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Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe est mort d’insuffisance respiratoire dans la nuit de samedi \u00e0 dimanche, \u00e0 l’h\u00f4pital Saint-Louis \u00e0 Paris. Philosophe, germaniste, traducteur et homme de th\u00e9\u00e2tre, professeur d’esth\u00e9tique \u00e0 l’universit\u00e9 de Strasbourg, il avait 67 ans.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n
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Assise. <\/strong>Etait-il venu \u00e0 la philosophie \u00e0 cause de la tr\u00e8s haute id\u00e9e qu’il se faisait de la litt\u00e9rature, \u00e0 laquelle il se destinait au commencement ? Ou s’\u00e9tait-il mis \u00e0 l’\u00e9criture justement \u00e0 travers les accointances de celle-ci avec l’acte m\u00eame de penser, au moins depuis Platon ? Questions probablement apor\u00e9tiques pour Lacoue-Labarthe et proprement circulaires, qui trouvaient pourtant chez lui une assise, un point de stabilisation dans sa conception, et de la pens\u00e9e et de la litt\u00e9rature, comme des arts de la mise en sc\u00e8ne.<\/div>\n
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Dans ce th\u00e9\u00e2tre mental dont il est le pi\u00e8tre h\u00e9ros, le sujet moderne se sauve pourtant s’il parvient \u00e0 franchir indemne l’\u00e9preuve du langage. Ce combat, chez Lacoue-Labarthe, n’a pas \u00e9t\u00e9 que m\u00e9taphorique, lorsqu’on songe que la langue philosophique, qu’il s’est agi pour lui de parler et de refuser \u00e0 la fois, n’est autre que celle de Martin Heidegger. A travers quel \u00e9quilibre instable, entre respect et rejet, peut-on accueillir la grandeur vivifiante de l’oeuvre tout en continuant \u00e0 se (d\u00e9)battre contre la noirceur \u00e9thique du philosophe allemand ? Une g\u00e9n\u00e9ration de philosophes fran\u00e7ais est pass\u00e9e par l\u00e0 ; Lacoue-Labarthe est celui qui, certainement, a \u00e9t\u00e9 le plus loin dans ce questionnement in\u00e9puisable, orientant et sans doute marquant ses lectures de H\u00f6lderlin, Diderot, Celan, Blanchot, Rimbaud, Benjamin, Marx… jusqu’aux romantiques allemands.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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