Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940–2007) and Jean-Luc Nancy (1940–2021) are among the most important authors of recent French philosophy. Both taught at the University of Strasbourg, where, in close intellectual partnership, they developed an original reinterpretation of the German philosophical tradition. Their joint works examined the language-theoretical foundations of Lacanian psychoanalysis (Le titre de la lettre, 1973), decisively shaped the French engagement with German Romanticism (L'Absolu littéraire, 1978) and undertook a redetermination of the concept of the political (Le ›retrait‹ du politique, 1983). At the Centre de recherches philosophiques sur le politique, which they founded, they pursued – as in their individual works – the entanglement of aesthetic and political questions in concepts such as community, subjectivity, myth, mimesis and representation.
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