Umbr(a) - The Dark God

contents http://www.gsa.buffalo.edu/lacan/backissues/darkgod.html

above all has the piece by Lacoue-Labarthe "Pasolini, an improvisation (of a Saintliness)"

http://www.mediafire.com/file/jvmingfjdn2/THE_DARK_GOD.pdf


p.s. christian jambet is probably the worst word-splitter of France
"audacious enough to turn a deaf ear to that heavenly voice in order to uphold a theory that does not require them to rack their brains" Kant, Critique of Practical Reason, p.51 [ak 35] of Pluhar translation

Of the Sublime: Presence in Question [made in istanbul]

Librett's labor yielded such a masterpiece that its invisibility is not without reason. In this wonderfully worked out volume, he translated Cerisy essays by

Jean-luc Nancy
Philippe Lacoue-labarthe
Jean-François Courtine (very rare in english)
Michel Deguy
(the goddess) Elaine Escobar
Lyotard
Louis Marin
Rogozinski

burn down the letters, let pages get blind, for sublime is a terror and syncope, there remains for you, the task: laugh.

link

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe: Representation and the Loss of the Subject

MADE IN ISTANBUL



Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe: Representation and the Loss of the Subject
(Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)
by John Martis

# Hardcover: 316 pages
# Publisher: Fordham University Press (November 1, 2005)

This is the first full-length book in English on the noted French philosopher Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. Martis introduces the range of Lacoue-Labarthe’s thinking, demonstrating the systematic nature of his philosophical project. Focusing in particular on the dynamic of the loss of the subject and its possible post-deconstructive recovery, he places Lacoue-Labarthe’s achievements in the context of related philosophers, most importantly Nancy, Derrida, and Blanchot. John Martis, S.J. teaches at the United Faculty of Theology, Melbourne, Australia, as a member of Jesuit Theological College, where he is Professor of Philosophy and Academic Principal.

here is the book as I promised here.

Bonus Track: Sylvia Plath reads "November Graveyard"
http://www.divshare.com/download/3615344-e73

Lacoue-Labarthe - Typography: Mimesis, Philosophy, Politics

Typography: Mimesis, Philosophy, Politics
(Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
Jacques Derrida (Introduction)
Christopher Fynsk (Translator)

Paperback: 308 pages
Publisher: Stanford University Press; 1 edition (January 1, 1998)

Philosopher, literary critic, translator (of Nietzsche and Benjamin), Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe is one of the leading intellectual figures in France. This volume of six essays deals with the relation between philosophy and aesthetics, particularly the role of mimesis in a metaphysics of representation.

Comment [1997]

“Typography is a book whose importance has not diminished since its first publication in French in 1979. On the contrary, I would say, it is only now that one can truly begin to appreciate the groundbreaking status of these essays. The points it makes, the way it approaches the questions of mimesis, fictionality, and figurality, is unique. There are no comparable books, or books that could supersede it.” —Rudolphe Gasché,

State University of New York, Buffalo

“Lacoue-Labarthe’s essays still set the standards for thinking through the problem of subjectivity without simply retreating behind insights already gained. But this book is much more than a collection of essays: it constitutes a philosophical project in its own right. Anybody interested in the problem of mimesis—whether from a psychoanalytic, platonic, or any other philosophical angle—cannot avoid an encounter with this book. Lacoue-Labarthe is a philosopher and a comparatist in the highest sense of the word, and the breadth of his knowledge and the rigor of his thought are exemplary.” —Eva Geulen,

New York University

Review

“In demonstrating how mimesis has determined philosophical thought, Lacoue-Labarthe provokes us into reconsidering our understanding of history and politics. . . . Together with the introduction, these essays are essential reading for anyone interested in Heidegger, postmodernism, and the history of mimesis in philosophy and literature.” —The Review of Metaphysics

salute!

[photo by Arif Aşçı]

BONUS TRACK

Sylvia Plath - On the Decline of Oracles

Lacoue-Labarthe: where art thou?

has it been an already a year since Lacoue-Labarthe passed away.
it seems so.

Fynsk's words in after-words tells everything about his work's gratitude:

I will end this awkward note (dulled by the immediate effects of grief) with a word on the mystery of Philippe’s collapse. Those who were close to him know that it began many years ago, its causes inextricably psychic and physiological. He foundered in ways that will make his friends think uncomfortably of the fate of Hölderlin (with whom he identified powerfully), but that also prompt one to think of Heidegger’s words on the fates of thinkers like Nietzsche or Schelling (as at the beginning of the Schelling lectures). Philippe taught us to think carefully about such figures of thought, and especially of this particular version of tragic thought. He taught us a critically important sobriety. But he faced such issues with the seriousness with which he treated everything of Heidegger’s work of this period. And I believe that such seriousness leads us to consider his own fate in the light of Heidegger’s many remarks on the way a great thinker or poet faces disaster. Philippe deserves no less.

such a level of sense and bearing of it deserves no less than respect

Nancy's obituary and others
[can anyone translate Nancy's obituary into english?]

here are some links (mostly available from wiki):
*Bruno Tackels' lectures on L-L: france culture
* deconstructing mimesis: a symposium on L-L's thinking at sorbonne and complete recordings
* monogrammes x
* Entretien avec Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, réalisé par Bruno Duarte: De Hölderlin à Marx : mythe, imitation, tragédie
* "Oedipus as Figure" at radical philosophy
more on the way

and here are some articles by L-L:
Lacoue-Labarthe - Talks
Lacoue-Labarthe - Sublime Truth (Part 1)
Lacoue-Labarthe - Sublime Truth (Part 2)
Lacoue-Labarthe - Neither an Accident nor a Mistake
Lacoue-Labarthe - Il faut
Lacoue-Labarthe & JL Nancy - The Nazi Myth

and some articles on LL:
* Thinking the Apocalypse A Letter from Maurice Blanchot to Catherine David
* The Impossibility of Poetry Celan and Heidegger in France
* Review Mimesis and Truth by LL
* Re-re-re-reading Jena - susan bernstein

HERE IS THE LINK FOR ALL


PDFs of these books are in next months list:
* Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe: Representation and the Loss of the Subject
by John Martis
* Lacoue-Labarthe - Typography
* Lacoue-Labarthe - Heidegger, Art and Politics
this is what I posted before The Literary Absolute: The Theory Of Literature In German Romanticism

if you have any article & book to share please send to "farkyarasi1 [at] gmail.com".[especially this text: Memory Text: Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940–2007)- Susan Bernstein in October Fall 2007, No. 122, Pages 121-127 ]

feel free to leave comments on Lacoue-Labarthe's thinking.
thanks.

Lacoue-Labarthe - Heidegger, Art and Politics

Heidegger, Art and Politics by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

from wikipedia
Lacoue-Labarthe received his doctorat d'état in 1987 with a jury led by Gérard Granel and including Derrida, George Steiner and Jean-François Lyotard. The monograph submitted for that degree was La fiction du politique (1988; trans., Heidegger, Art, and Politics), a study of Heidegger's relation to National Socialism. These works predate the explosion of interest in the political dimensions of Heidegger's thought which followed the publication of a book by Victor Farías.

all that silence prevails

UNHEIL

The Theory Of Literature in German Romanticism

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

&

Jean-Luc Nancy

The Literary Absolute

The Theory Of Literature In German Romanticism

from Preface: http://www.egs.edu/faculty/nancy/nancy-the-literary-absolute.html
"O Genoa, willingly would I divide myself into thee And a wave, in thy port, roll with the waves, Ripen in the company of thy golden oranges, Become the marble and audacity of thy porticos; A hero, I would rally thy band of maidens, I would tear the veil from their fiery eyes, I would revel in cups of nectar, In all of them, tarrying at none. Done with vague longing and hazy dreams! Let me delight in and embrace the stone statue, The Cytherean, and not her reflection. I dreamt--when from the foam, upsurging Came the goddess in a fragrance of roses. A voice resounded: "I form and transfigure!" Zacharias Werner From Selected Writings, published by his friends( Grimma, 1840- 1841), vol 1, 174. "

thou!