... that dissimulates itself as “life,” or what Philippe Lacoue-­Labarthe and Jean-­Luc Nancy call “type” in “The Nazi Myth”:14 “life” is given back to life, then, via this politically invested ideal form but only to measure life against this idealized form. But insofar as the Nazi myth is founded in “absolute...

... Jean-François Lyotard Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe The Sublime without Longinus James I. Porter The sublime is a perennial source of fascination. Studies abound, and so do appeals to the concept it stands for—that ever-alluring­ and elu...

..., the Romantics set it up as a mirror to the world, which is itself only partial. One must be cautious about yielding to a too modernizing reading of the fragment. As Philippe Lacoue-­Labarthe and Nancy have emphasized in The Literary Absolute, the Romantic fragment possesses an autonomy...

... friends and interlocutors, Maurice de Gandillac (Benjamin’s major French translator), Peter Szondi, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Antoine Berman (who was working at the time on L’Epreuve de l’Etranger [The Trials of the Foreign], a water- shed book of translation theory published...

... of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 29, no. 1 (Fall 1970): 87–104. O’Hara / High Modernism and Visionary Violence 153 contemporary critique of that genius by using Philippe Lacoue-­Labarthe’s and Theodor Adorno’s positions, with which he has serious disagreements. In their influential...

... . 2007 . The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism . New York : Picador . Lacoue-Labarthe Philippe Rancière Jacques Lyotard Jean-François Badiou Alain 1989 . “ Liminaire sur l’ouvrage d’Alain Badiou ‘L’être et l’évènement .” Le Cahier (Collège Internationale de...

... by Jacques Derrida, Philippe Lacoue-­Labarthe, Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-François­ Lyotard, Jürgen Habermas, and Hans-­Georg Gadamer, along with some American scholars. In this sense, we might say, Spanos was already working on a postdeconstructive prob- lematization of Heidegger’s thought. Pease adds...

..., and Philippe Lacou-­LaBarthe—is­ to achieve a subtle double-session­ on behalf of critical theory: on the one hand, follow the Marx- ian dictum that to know is not just to interpret but to transform reality, and, on the other hand, pay heed to the Heideggerian imperative of Gelassenheit, of letting...

...).11 It is also 11. The call for a “new mythology” by Schelling and the Jena romantics is described in the opening chapter of Philippe Lacoue-­Labarthe and Jean-­Luc Nancy, The Literary Absolute: The Theory of Literature in German Romanticism, trans. Philip Barnard and Cheryl Lester (Albany...