Poetry as Experience

by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

Book Overview

Lacoue-Labarthe's Poetry as Experience addresses the question of a lyric language that would not be the expression of subjectivity. In his analysis of the historical position of Paul Celan's poetry, Lacoue-Labarthe defines the subject as the principle that founds, organizes, and secures both cognition and action--a principle that turned, most violently during the twentieth century, into a figure not only of domination but of the extermination...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804734275
• ISBN13: 9780804734271
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"