Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940–2007) was a French philosopher, literary critic and translator. A professor at the University of Strasbourg, he worked closely with Jean-Luc Nancy, co-writing The Title of the Letter, a reading of Lacan (1973), and The Literary Absolute (1978), on German Romanticism; in 1980 the two founded the Centre for Philosophical Research on the Political. His own work examines Heidegger, poetry and politics, notably Heidegger, Art and Politics (La fiction du politique, 1987) and Poetry as Experience (1986), on Paul Celan. He translated Hölderlin for the stage and served as president of the Collège international de philosophie.
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Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940–2007) was a French philosopher, literary critic and translator. A professor at the University of Strasbourg, he worked closely with Jean-Luc Nancy, co-writing The Title of the Letter, a reading of Lacan (1973), and The Literary Absolute (1978), on German Romanticism; in 1980 the two founded the Centre for Philosophical Research on the Political. His own work examines Heidegger, poetry and politics, notably Heidegger, Art and Politics (La fiction du politique, 1987) and Poetry as Experience (1986), on Paul Celan. He translated Hölderlin for the stage and served as president of the Collège international de philosophie.